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About Team Communication and Tools
Slack is a proprietary business communication platform developed by American software company Slack Technologies and owned by Salesforce from 2021. Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging.
For the CDC PRIME project, our primary communication and collaboration occurs in Slack. Your Delivery Manager will add you to the appropriate Slack channels depending on your role and team. (If you don't already have a Slack account, you’ll be instructed to create one in the “5 | Checklist” section of your onboarding guide.)
GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface. It also provides access control and several collaboration features, such as a wikis and basic task management tools for every project.
For the CDC PRIME project, we organize all our work in GitHub. All team members must have a GitHub account to access the project work. (If you don't already have a GitHub account, you’ll be instructed to create one in the “5 | Checklist” section of your onboarding guide.)
To send meeting invites (and for other occasional use), we’ll use email. You’ll use the email provider preferred by your agency. Once you receive your CDC credentials (which can take a couple of weeks to months for the process to complete), you’ll be assigned a CDC email. The CDC credential will allow you to access CDC resources and tools. (CDC credentialing process is covered in the "5. Checklist" section of your onboarding guide.)
This is a sub-page of the CDC PRIME ReportStream New Team Member Onboarding Hub.