team-onboarding

Productivity

Comprehensive onboarding methodology for new team members covering pre-boarding through 90-day milestones. Use when planning onboarding, creating checklists, or establishing team integration processes.

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Team Onboarding

Pre-Onboarding

Create accounts (email, Slack, GitHub, AWS, etc.) with SSO/2FA
Prepare hardware, temporary credentials, password manager guide
Compile role-specific docs, update org charts
Configure calendar with initial meetings

Week 1: Orientation & Immersion

Day 1: Manager welcome, team intros, role expectations, IT setup, HR paperwork

Codebase:

Architecture overview and system diagrams
Main repos walkthrough with tech lead
Dev workflow, branching strategy, code style
CI/CD, deployment, monitoring tour

First Contributions:

"Good first issues" tasks
Pair programming on simple fix
Submit first PR with buddy guidance

Dev Environment Setup

IDE + extensions, linters, formatters, debugger, git config
Database connections (read-only initially), API keys via secrets manager
Container setup, testing framework, staging access

Buddy System

Week	Frequency	Activities	Time
1	Daily	Check-in, pair programming	2 hrs/day
2-3	3x/week	Code review, architecture	1 hr/day
4	2x/week	Project collaboration	30 min/day
5-8	Weekly	Progress check-in	1 hr/week
9-12	Bi-weekly	Mentorship transition	30 min/week

Milestones

30-Day

Complete mandatory training, merge 3+ PRs
Document one process, present learnings (10 min)

60-Day

Own small feature end-to-end, shadow on-call
Contribute to technical design, cross-team relationships

90-Day

Independent feature delivery, active code review
Mentor newer member, propose process improvement

Example Plans

Software Engineer (30/60/90)

Day 1-7: IT setup, team intros, dev env, first PR, architecture sessions Week 2-4: 5+ PR reviews as observer, shadow senior, document unclear process Day 31-60: Own first feature, design review, shadow on-call, pair with 3+ members Day 61-90: Lead small project, participate in planning, handle on-call with supervision

Senior/Lead Engineer (Accelerated)

Week 1: Leadership intros, full architecture deep-dive, priorities briefing, stakeholder meetings Week 2-3: Review postmortems, analyze tech debt, audit processes, identify quick wins Week 4: Lead first ceremony, own critical decision, establish 1:1 cadence, submit architectural proposal