Step 2: Technical Onboarding Resources

These materials focus on technical workflow concepts, primarily GitHub and Scrum.

You should review this content before the first day of class so that your team can hit the ground running. It’s OK if not everything is crystal clear, but you should be familiar with the broad strokes.

(If you come across something you think other students might find useful, post a link in Slack in the #general or #random channels. Sharing helps everyone!)

GitHub

• Stepping through creating and cloning a fork, setting the upstream connection, and creating a PR
  This is the recommended workflow for DSC-WAV!
  Nicholas Horton

• An Introduction to Git and GitHub
  Alexa Fredston
  This is distilled from several resources for a specific class. It is both a how-to and explains the motivation and benefits of using these version control tools.

• Alternative approach for those using GitDesktop
  not the recommended workflow
  Nicholas Horton

• Using Issues in GitHub:
  This site hosts a lot of instructional videos about using GitHub. You might want to revisit this site as you collaborate more with GitHub; you might refine your workflow with your teammates as you go.

• Using Project Boards in GitHub

• Handling git conflicts
  Ben Baumer

Scrum

• Screencasts about Scrum
  Benjamin S. Baumer, Smith College

  • Scrum roles
  • Sprint mechanics
  • Kanban boards
  • User Stories
  • Code Review

• Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum
  Becky Sweger, Principal Engineer, Atlassian
  Onboarding Workshop - Fall, 2020

• Introduction to Scrum
  Brian Krusell, UMass
  Onboarding Workshop - Spring 2020

• Sprint Retrospectives
  Becky Sweger, Principal Engineer, Atlassian

• Atlassian Coach–Resources related to Scrum
  There is lots to read here. Make sure you understand the purpose and howtos of Sprint Planning, Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives and also how User Stories can help a team to target development most usefully and strategically.

Miscellaneous

• RStudio Cheatsheets (one page syntax reminders) You can also find these right in the Help menu in RStudio.

• Implementing version control with Git and GitHub as a learning objective in statistics and data science courses, Beckman, et al. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021.

Moving on…

Do you feel confident that you’ve developed a working knowledge of GitHub and Scrum? Excellent – you’re ready to learn more about working as a team.

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Created by Ben Baumer. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers HDR DSC 1924017, 1923388, 1923700, 1923934, and 1924032. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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