As well as specific tooling for your job (eg development) there are a number of tools that you will need to use. These are all cloud-based; we do not expect you to use anything as 1999 as Excel.

Google Apps

We use Google Apps for mail, calendar, documents, wiki, hangouts, and for other apps’ authentication/authorisation. Our domain is cultivatehq.com, and you will have been issued with a login on joining.

Use a secure password, and 2-factor authentication.

Holiday Tracker

Holiday (aka vacation, paid-time-off) is tracked via our the holiday tracker’s slack interface. DM “The Cultivar” (@the_cultivar) on Slack with hols help for more information.

Expensify

We use Expensify to add and get expenses approved. There are mobile apps which make this easier.

1Password

We use 1Password to securely share passwords, via the 1Password Team. You will be granted access to this.

Dropbox

We use a business account for shared document, to which permenant staff are granted acess.

Use 2-factor authentication for Dropbox.

Slack

Slack is used for group and individual chat. Normally you will be expected to be logged in, but you do not need to be in any rooms - unless there are project specific rooms that you need to be present in for communciation with clients and/or remote colleages.

Github

We are a technical organisation. Regardless of your role, you will probably eventually need a Github account, for example to look at the history of this handbook.

1. Register with Github.
2. Ask a developer to make sure you are on the Cultivate Github team.

Timesheets

Billable staff should update their timesheets daily on Timesheets.