Software Engineer Onboarding Plan

Complete general onboarding for new employees covering HR and IT.

Key activities:

• Receive work laptop.
• Install software: Microsoft Office, Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Teams.
• Access to Netsuite for time reporting.
• Access to Nextep for benefits & payroll.
• Access to CDISC SharePoint.
• Access to CDISC Wiki & Jira.
• Access to CDISC website.
• Access to CDISC on-line training system.
• COP-001.

HR@cdisc.org

ITServiceDesk@cdisc.org

ITSupport@cdisc.org

Who we are. What we do. How we do it.

Key activities:

• Data Science org chart.
• Meet & greet with Anthony's team.

Key initiatives & projects:

• CDISC Library.
• CDISC Open Rules Engine (CORE).
• TransCelerate Digital Data Flow (TCB DDF).
• Tobacco Implementation Guide for (TIG).
• Single sign-on.
• Freemium.
• COSMoS.

Anthony Chow

Assist: Gerry Campion for Andrew Su

Assist: Nic Haydel for TBD

Add access to communication channels. Invite to company and team meetings.

Key activities:

• Invite to Slack channels, e.g., #data-science, #core-internal, etc.
• Invite to daily standup.
• Invite to sprint planning.
• Invite to sprint review.
• Invite to recurring Data Science team meeting.
• Invite to recurring CDISC staff meeting.
• Invite to Data Science team page on SharePoint.

Anthony Chow

Omar Garcia Calderon

Set up software & access commonly used within Data Science and by software engineers.

Key software:

• Postman.
• Python.
• Swaggerhub.
• Visual Studio Code.
• Visio.

Key access:

• Azure DevOps.
• Azure Portal.
• Github.

Gerry Campion

Nic Haydel

Key activities:

• Understand Azure AD B2C.
• Understand Azure API Management.
• Understand Microsoft Graph API.
• Provision a CDISC Library account.

Meeting with Scrum Master and familiarize with the backlogs in Azure DevOps.

Key activities:

• Overview of CDISC Library Scrum ceremonies.
• Understand effort estimation.  
• Review CDISC Library backlog.
• Review CORE backlog.

Share and review documentations. Overview of tech stack.

Key knowledge areas:

• Topology.
• Data flow.
• Authentication & authorization schemes.
• Environments.

Gerry Campion for CDSIC Library

Nic Haydel for CORE

Introduction to CDISC standards. Industry lingos.

Key courses:

• CDISC Newcomers.
• CDISC Controlled Terminology.
• Introduction to SDTM.
• SDTM Basics.
• Introduction to CDASH.
• Introduction to ADaM.
• Introduction to Define-XML.
• CDISC Library.
• Therapeutic Area (Chapter 1).

Overview of metadata pipelines. Introduce code base from project repo. Introduce self-service function app.

Key knowledge areas:

• Run pipeline for Controlled Terminology.
• Run pipeline for a foundational standard.
• Run self-service functional app.

Gerry Campion

Overview of the build process.

Key knowledge areas:

• Review YAML scripts.
• Understand approval gates for each environment.

Meet with Scrum Master and work the backlog.

Key activities:

• Review maintenance PBIs and assign one task from each of these areas:
  • UI/UX
  • Backend
  • Authentication (MSAL)
  • Export
  • Diff
  • API specification

Anthony Chow

Omar Garcia Calderon

Anything under Azure infrastructure features in DevOps?

• Update APIM policy to support Freemium, e.g., build an infrastructure pipeline similar to CORE

2.9 - Guiding Principles for Software Development

Data Science Onboarding

learn.cdisc.org

onlinetrainingsupport@cdisc.org

Creating and Accessing an Account in The CDISC Learning System.pdf
Creating-and-Accessing-Your-Account-in-the-CDISC-LMS_20210728_NEW.mp4