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Day 1 - The basics: laptop, your team, buddy

• [ ] Set up laptop
  • [ ] Email
  • [ ] Calendar
  • [ ] Messaging service
  • [ ] Video calling tool
  • [ ] Payroll, expenses and other admin
  • [ ] Access to other tools used for managing backlog, documentation, roadmapping etc.
• [ ] Meet your manager
  • [ ] Talk about the frequency of meetings, communication protocols
  • [ ] Gather basic expectations on onboarding
• [ ] Meet your buddy
  • [ ] Introduce yourself
  • [ ] Find out what support they can give you
  • [ ] Ask if you can shadow them in meetings your first month
  • [ ] Agree on communication - will it be weekly or more ad hoc

Day 7 - Bird eye’s view of the business and product

• [ ] Meet your immediate scrum team
  • [ ] Attend the standup and sprint planning
  • [ ] Understand their preferred mode of communication
• [ ] Understand the product
  • [ ] Get hands-on with your product by creating a trial
  • [ ] Trial other competitor products
  • [ ] Review internal content created for Sales and Marketing is useful to understand how the product is positioned to your customers
  • [ ] Setup time with your manager to understand business and product development priorities
• [ ] Understand the business
  • [ ] Review your company’s shareholder report, if the company is publicly listed
  • [ ] Review Quarterly Business Report

Day 14 - Gain a deeper understanding of your product area

• [ ] Get to know your product area
  • [ ] Understand your assigned product/focus’ goals
  • [ ] Review secondary sources of insights

Day 21 - Meet your direct stakeholders

• [ ] Stakeholders - Start to identify and reach out to stakeholders.
  • [ ] Head of Product
  • [ ] Engineering Manager
  • [ ] Product Designer
  • [ ] Product Marketing Manager
  • [ ] Program Manager
  • [ ] UX Researcher
  • [ ] Data / analytics team
  • [ ] Other members of the product team
• [ ] Possible topics to discuss during your 1:1
  • Introduce yourself
  • Understand what is important for them - their area of focus , priorities and how can you help them be successful
  • Mention the product area that you will be focussing on
  • Get their thoughts, if they have been working on that product area or are familiar with it
  • Suggestions on onboarding - other documentations or meetings which you should be attending
  • Collaboration style and preferred mode of communication
• [ ] Understand how the product roadmap is created - is it top down, based on product development priorities, business metrics
  • [ ] Review the product roadmap for the year (mid term)
  • [ ] Review the business goals and strategy for the next few years (long term)
• Identify a low hanging fruit - UX improvement or improvement to existing capability that you can help out with

Day 30 - Getting started on your product roadmap

• [ ] Identify problems and opportunities on your product area
• [ ] Get feedback on it from your manager and other members of the product team
• [ ] Share the initial hypothesis with your design and engineering partner