User:Chris Tyler/draft/CDOT Researchers

This is a draft only!
It is still under construction and content may change. Do not rely on this information.

Work Environment

Student Hours

• Flex hours
  • Researchers schedule their own hours
  • To foster collaboration, all researchers are expected to be present from 10 am through 3 pm four days per week

System Backup

• Researchers are responsible for backing up their own work
• Data files should be replicated from local workstations to the NAS server and/or checked in to the appropriate repository daily
• Files should be burnt to optical media at the end of each weekday

System Administration

• Each researcher is the primary administrator of the system in their cubicle
• Each researcher has access to the other development systems
• Don't blow up other people's work

Communication

• Blogging
  • Prepare a short blog post about your work each day. Tag all of these posts for distribution to the internal planet.
  • Post out to the CDOT public planet and to your community's planet a minimum of once a week
• Wiki
  • Update your project timeline daily
  • Document APIs changes and other development results within the week in which they are made