ASC Handbook

This section contains onboarding and “how the team works” for staff of Aalto SciComp. Compared to the main site scicomp.aalto.fi, this is for staff but open in accordance with our values.

Like everything, this documents past practice but that does not mean the future has to be the same.

You shouldn’t be alone, your supervisor and team is here to help you. When you are an academic, there’s this implicit expectation that you do almost everything yourself (and if it takes a while, at least you learned something). We also have a spirit of learning, but you shouldn’t waste time on known things, when you could learn from someone else on the team faster and better.

This handbook is also long, and while you should browse and know the basics here, a lot of the purpose is to have a link so that someone who knows of the page can send you the link.

Inspired by RFCs/IETF task force documents, this will use the terminologies MUST to mean something you should do (unless you really think why not and others know), SHOULD or RECOMMENDED are things you should usually do but there are cases where it may not be practical, and MAY or COULD means things that are really at your option.

• Welcome
• Aalto SciComp values and culture
• History of Science-IT
• Meetings
• Communication channels
• Human Resources formalities
• Finance stuff
• IT devices and procurement
• Offices and work locations