Thingies

log.md

@@ -151,49 +151,8 @@ And that's it for the first day.
 - [X] Elaine (Finance)
 - [X] Leo (Sales)
 
-
+- [X] Set up profile and other thingies in Sage HR
-
+- [X] Learn what employee benefits do we have -> None
-# Now
-
-## Onboarding and Data Kickstart
-
-- [ ] Get access to Confluence
-- [ ] Get access to Azure Devops
-- [ ] Are there any shared folders in Keeper Security where I should be added?
-- [ ] Get access to staging environment for backoffice app
-- [ ] Get access to staging environment for KYG platform
-
-- [ ] Set up profile and other thingies in Sage HR
-- [ ] Learn what employee benefits do we have
-- [ ] Ask Nicky (and Ben Robinson?) about IT equipment policy
-- Equipment
-  - [ ] Second screen
-  - [ ] Keyboard
-  - [ ] USB-C hub with several USB A + HDMI
-  - [ ] Second RAM card -> https://www.neobyte.es/memoria-crucial-16gb-ddr4-sodimm-3200-ct16g4sfra3a-8487.html, https://www.pccomponentes.com/corsair-vengeance-so-dimm-ddr4-3200mhz-pc4-25600-32gb-2x16gb-cl22
-
-- [ ] Get access to Norskken house -> Should have news by 30/11
-- [ ] How to book rooms?
-- [ ] Get a locker
-- [ ] Get access to these maps
-![img.png](images/norskken_3rd_floor_map.png)
-
-- [ ] Time with the rest of the IT crew?
-- [ ] Book some time with Alex Anderson (Business Systems)
-- [ ] Book some time with Lianne Foster (Business Systems)
-- [ ] Luisa Legal (has contact with Trust Keys)
-
-
-
-- [ ] Big official "This is what we will do" Data meeting in December
-
-
-- [X] Get access to the Data Meeting excel from Ben Cotte
-- [ ] Review the data exploration efforts made by Cotte
-- [ ] Get access to Data Map from Trust Keith
-
-- [ ] Start writing up the Data space in Notion/Confluence?
-
 
 ## Meeting with Matt
 
@@ -247,19 +206,16 @@ Systems:
 - Hubspot
 - Dashboard? KYG?
 
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 ## Meeting with Nicky
 
 - Sage HR
   - Holiday requests get managed there
   - Bank holidays
-  - Holidays can roll over until March
+  - Holidays can roll over until March of the next year
   - Birthday off
-  - Weekly Timesheet
+  - Weekly Timesheet must be filled
-- Equipment
+- Additional IT equipment
-  - Through Nicky
+  - Ask Nicky
 - Benefits?
   - Nothing at the moment
 - Where to check payslips?
@@ -269,22 +225,73 @@ Systems:
   - April it gets paid
 
 
+
+# Now
+
+## Onboarding and Data Kickstart
+
+- [ ] Get access to Confluence
+- [ ] Get access to Azure Devops
+- [ ] Are there any shared folders in Keeper Security where I should be added?
+- [ ] Get access to staging environment for backoffice app
+- [ ] Get access to staging environment for KYG platform
+
+- [ ] Get hold of company themed office templates
+
+- [ ] Ask Nicky (and Ben Robinson?) about IT equipment policy
+- Equipment
+  - [ ] Second screen
+  - [ ] Keyboard
+  - [ ] USB-C hub with several USB A + HDMI
+  - [ ] Second RAM card -> https://www.neobyte.es/memoria-crucial-16gb-ddr4-sodimm-3200-ct16g4sfra3a-8487.html, https://www.pccomponentes.com/corsair-vengeance-so-dimm-ddr4-3200mhz-pc4-25600-32gb-2x16gb-cl22
+
+- [ ] Get access to Norskken house -> Should have news by 30/11
+- [ ] How to book rooms?
+- [ ] Get a locker
+- [ ] Get access to these maps
+![img.png](images/norskken_3rd_floor_map.png)
+
+- [ ] Time with the rest of the IT crew?
+- [ ] Book some time with Alex Anderson (Business Systems)
+- [ ] Book some time with Lianne Foster (Business Systems)
+- [ ] Luisa Legal (has contact with Trust Keys)
+
+
+
+- [ ] Big official "This is what we will do" Data meeting in December
+
+
+- [X] Get access to the Data Meeting excel from Ben Cotte
+- [ ] Review the data exploration efforts made by Cotte
+- [ ] Get access to Data Map from Trust Keith
+
+- [ ] Start writing up the Data space in Notion/Confluence?
+
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+
 ## Meeting with Ben Robinson
 
 - About the teams
   - Structure of the engineering team
+    - Going from one large team to squads
+    - Got 1 squad up and running (PMS - Karim)
+    - Dashboard squad
+    - Ray (APIs)
+    - Goal is to have 5 squads with 5 team leads
+    - Infra? Each team 
   - Main communication channels
   - Who to go to for what
-- Architecture overview
+    - Ben or Gus
-  - Explainer
-  - Focus on databases
-  - Documentation
-  - VPN? Will you give me keys for cloud account?
-  - Who can I reach out to for infra requests?
-  - Your opinon: technical debt
-  - Current engineering culture
 - Accesses
   - Azure Devops
+  - Git
   - Confluence
   - VPN?
   - User for staging environments for "Dashboard" and "KYG"
@@ -292,10 +299,55 @@ Systems:
   - All through Teams?
   - Difference between quick ticket and regular one?
   - IT equipment requests?
+    - Nicky or Kayla
+    - Perhaps
 - Productivity tools
   - Slack vs Teams
   - Confluence vs Notion
   - Devops vs Product Board
+    - Originally it was only Teams and Devops
+    - Shadow IT
+  - Hope
+- Architecture overview
+  - Explainer
+    - Multiple applications, APIs and databases
+    - Databases
+      - 1 Main SQL database -> Core
+      - 3 NoSQL cosmos databases
+        - resolutions
+        - athena
+        - claims
+    - Hubspot
+      - CRM
+      - Email campaigns
+      - Discussions on single source of truth against 
+  - Accounting tool
+    - Current tool is Zero
+    - Ben is with me, not too many things on that tool
+  - PowerBI
+    - There are some dashboards with data models
+    - There's a few SQL models
+    - Mostly owned by Alex Anderson
+  - Documentation
+    - Ben sends my way
+  - VPN? Will you give me keys for cloud account? Infrastructure? Who can I reach out to for infra requests?
+    - All azure
+    - Ben and Gus are taking care of infra across all squads
+    - Devops on the head hunting list
+  - Your opinion: technical debt
+  - Current engineering culture
+  - Your point of view 
+  - Ways of working
+    - scrum, 2 weeks
+    - 
+
+- Accesses
+  - Devops
+  - Confluence
+  - DMZ
+  - PowerBI
+- Docs
+- Set up some time with Ben and Gus
 
 
 

onboarding_life.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   - [ ] Check that you can access the Support Portal, which we call... Supportal. You should find in the left side panel of your teams desktop app.
   - [ ] Get access to PowerBI
   - [ ] Get access to Hubspot
-  - [ ] Check our document templates at ???
+  - [ ] Check our document templates at https://guardhog.sharepoint.com/sites/Guardhoggroup/Document%20Centre/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FGuardhoggroup%2FDocument%20Centre%2FSUPERHOG%2F7%2E%20ALL%20STAFF%2FPowerPoint%20Templates&p=true&ga=1
 - BCN Office specifics
   - [ ] Get access to Norskken House (contact ???)
   - [ ] Get access to the following app to book meeting rooms
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     - Honest Greens is a nice option to have lunch or take it away and eat at Norskken (https://maps.app.goo.gl/mWMVjjaiBg9pyvzj7)
     - You can also get a good menu at the CNAB Restaurant
 - [ ] Say hi to everyone! You can introduce yourself at the "ALL STAFF" teams chat (ask someone to include you) or at the slack channel #all-staff.
-- [ ] Benefits?
+- [ ] Fill in your personal details, address, etc at Sage HR
+