This post focuses on steps to take during the first 3 months of forming a new team.
It is the second post in the "How to onboard teams" series which covers lessons and techniques acquired from ramping up many teams.
How do you get a brand new team to become productive within three months? This post describes the lessons and techniques from rapidly ramping up these teams. These tips should help new members become productive within 12 weeks.
There is a high chance that you attend or have attended an inefficiently-run stand-up. I have seen various stand-up styles over the years. Sadly, most of the roughly 2000 stand-ups I attended were unproductive. Mildly put, most were status reports for some manager or higher up.
This post describes a simple framework for evaluating career choices along three dimensions and helps you to choose what is most important to you.
A summary of chapter 2 of high output management
