This is a living document, designed to help track Asma induction and development. All is subject to change.
If updated regularly, the timelines can be used for future apprentices.
- Get online
- Get through corporate inductions
- Request necessary ServiceNow calls
| Week 1 (03-09 Nov 2025) | Week 2 (10-16 Nov 2025) | Week 3 (17-23 Nov 2025) | Week 4 (24-30 Nov 2025) | ||
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| Goal | Induction | Induction | Coding Environments Check & Get Coding | Away day & Begin Project | |
| Activities | - Set up their laptop - Know RDSA & meet team - ONS induction(s) - Introductory calls with key people |
- Continuation of Induction - Putting in service desk requests for code platforms |
- Checking code can be run in envorinments - Prepare for beginning of apprenticeship course - Begin Intro to Python course - Complete any final induction tasks |
- SPIDAS away day in Newport - Continuation of Python tutorials (intro to Python and Harvard video) - Receieve data for apprentice project |
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| Success measure | - Check PM board - Line manager chat |
- Check PM board - Attend enrollment call and programme launch |
- Check PM board - Confirm Asma machine can be used for apprenticeship work - Mandatory induction tasks ticked off |
- Enjoy / attend the away day - Continue with Python training |
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| Apprentice's role | - Work through induction | - Work through induction - Attend calls with QA |
- Finalise mandatory induction tasks - Start coding development |
- Admin / portfolio work for college course - Continue coding development and applying where possible |
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| LM role | - Regular check-ins and manage PM board - Ensure on correct mailing lists and meetings (DSC business support) - Set up introductory call |
Regular check-ins and manage PM board | - Regular check-ins and manage PM board - Assist with coding environment setup |
- Regular check-ins - Provide data for project |
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| G7 role | Support | Support | - Support - Consider workplace assignment |
Support | |
| Training provider role | - Provide information to allow enrollment and book programme launch | - Baseline meeting | |||
| Asma feedback | - First week went really well - Regular check-ins were really helpful as a touchpoint for questions - Mission spreadsheet having more information/updated would have helped |
- Happy to have finished most of missions tracker - Had some issues downloading software but happy it gave insight into problem solving |
- Happy to have learnt a lot about how I learn - Learnt a lot from reading / learning a theory and being able to apply it in a notebook |
- Went pretty well - Understood more on how the project will work out - Enjoyed away day and good to meet team members |
- Continue coding training
- Begin 1st apprentice project (GDD Pay)
| Week 1 (01-05 Dec 2025) | Week 2 (08-12 Dec 2025) | Week 3 (15-19 Dec 2025) | Week 4 (22-26 Dec 2025) | ||
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| Goal | Coding training / Apprentice Project | Shorter week | |||
| Activities | - Finish initial coding training (intro to Python & Harvard course) - Begin apprentice project with either planning or initial analysis - Begin CFG Python course |
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| Success measure | - Complete first training courses - Gained awareness of GDD data for next steps |
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| Apprentice's role | - Complete/continue courses - Begin GDD pay project |
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| LM role | - Regular check-ins - Support with GDD pay coding, if required |
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| G7 role | - Support | ||||
| Training provider role | - Deliver baseline meeting | ||||
| Asma feedback | first week, was busy but got an ease into coding with the Harvard course | Week 2 Apprentice project, cleaned data and really enjoyed working on a project | Week 3 continued with initial analysis, and further cleared data, was pretty busy but learned more about different packages within VScode | Week 4 shorter week, QA work was taking up a little bit more time, but still made an appropritate amount of time for the project, relly enjoyed how fast paced it was |
- Continue coding training (SQL, CODEWARS, freecodecamp)
- Continue on apprentice project (GDD Pay)
- Restart on readings
| Week 1 (05-09 Jan 2026) | Week 2 (12-16 Jan 2026) | Week 3 (19-23 Jan 2026) | Week 4 (26-30 Jan 2026) | ||
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| Goal | Coding Traning | GDD project | SQL CFG course | Reading | Code Wars |
| Activities | -Start on SQL course -Update on GDD project, have visualisation ready |
-Continue on GDD project, with a focus on SME's and bonus pay -Descriptives Statistics workshops with George, complete hmk |
-GDD project meeting -Descriptives Statistics workshops with George |
Staring on Report Readings CFG course median, and extra pay focus on GDD project |
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| Success measure | -Have visualisation ready for meeting on the 8/01/26 -Do 2 Codewars tasks |
- Have chat with LM - Read a chapter of the 'Data science from scratch' |
- More visualisation for meeting on the 20/01/26 focusing on SEM, and investigate the accuracy of finding | Get presentation ready for meeting | |
| Apprentice's role | -Start new course -Visualisation ready |
-Continue courses | -Visualisation for GDD project -Continue with courses |
- Visualation ready for presentations | |
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| Asma feedback | Week 1 -Worked very hard on the SQL course, and realised the project was actually starting to take shape, loved seeing the improvements |
Week 2 -Really enjoyed this week, I was learning more about different things I could include in my project, and applied them, also continued with my readings, and actually started to see what could be applied to the project |
Week 3 -This week was more intense, I did manage to learn new terminology (SEM) and apply it to my project |
Week 4 |