James Stanier - SVP Engineering at Brandwatch With 2020 being a year of unexpected distributed working, and with the future of our industry looking more remote, great onboarding programs have never been more important. In this talk we'll focus on three important aspects of onboarding engineers: technical, managerial, and cultural. We'll present a host of practical tools and techniques that you can take away right now and start putting in place ready for your next new hire. We'll touch upon development environments, dogfooding your product, documentation, contracting, 30-60-90 day plans and deliberate communication to build the network of your new recruits. https://ctocraft.com

1. Onboarding
A whirlwind tour
(Dr.) James Stanier SVP Engineering
@Brandwatch

2. Coming up
● What is onboarding and why should I care?
● 2020: before and after
● Onboarding themes
○ Technical
○ Managerial
○ Cultural
● Wrap up and take aways

3. What is it?

4. ...the action or process of integrating a
new employee into an organization or
familiarizing a new customer or client
with one's products or services.
*googles*

5. So, why should I care?

6. Net-positive contribution
Net-negative contribution

7. You are
accountable
for how long
this takes.

8. o(t,m,c)
Your onboarding speed is a function of your organizational efficiency in your
technical, managerial and cultural areas.

9. o(t,m,c)
Making your onboarding great makes your department great.
We’ll consider a north star for each area.
☆

10. But first, something helpful!

11. 2020
We know all about it.

12. Treat everyone as
remote.
Even if they aren’t remote.

13. o(t,m,c)
Technical onboarding.

14. How do I push to
production* on my first
day?
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* Or QA a ticket, or answer a customer
support request, or complete an IT ticket, or...

15. Documentation Dev servers
DeploymentDiscovery

16. How do I push to
production on my first
day?
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This may be an extremely long journey. But you get there step by step.

17. Net-positive contribution
Net-negative contribution

18. o(t,m,c)
Managerial onboarding.

19. What am I going to
achieve in the next 90
days?
☆

20. Career tracks
📅Weekly 1:1s
📑Contracting
30-60-90
Clear plan

21. What am I going to
achieve in the next 90
days?
☆
Active management and planning creates stability and safety.

22. o(t,m,c)
Cultural onboarding.

23. How do I become an
integral part of the
wider company?
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24. 🏆Values and mission

25. Company
Department
Division
Team

26. 👥Buddy system
☕(Virtual) coffees
🎮🎸🏀Interests and hobbies Slacking off

27. How do I become an
integral part of the
wider company?
☆
Feeling amongst friends and colleagues with a purpose.

28. o(t,m,c)
Your onboarding speed is a function of your organizational efficiency in your
technical, managerial and cultural areas.

29. Your north stars
● How do I push to production on my first day?
● What am I going to achieve in the next 90 days?
● How do I become an integral part of the wider company?
☆
Headfake: everything you do here will benefit all of your existing staff.

30. We go
through this
again and
again.

31. d(t,m,c)

32. How can I make small improvements to
how we work every single day?

33. Thank you!
@jstanier
theengineeringmanager.com/book
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