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Day 1

• [ ] Set up laptop
  • [ ] Email
  • [ ] Calendar
  • [ ] Messaging service
  • [ ] Video calling tool
  • [ ] Payroll, expenses and other admin
• [ ] Meet your manager
  • [ ] Talk about the frequency of meetings, communication protocols
  • [ ] Gather basic expectations
• [ ] Meet your buddy
  • [ ] Introduce yourself
  • [ ] Find out what support they can give you
  • [ ] Agree on communication - will it be weekly or more ad hoc

Day 7

• [ ] Set up other tools or accounts with those tools
  • [ ] Design tools (e.g. Abstract, Figma, Invision)
  • [ ] Research tools
  • [ ] Intranet (e.g. Confluence, Notion, Dropbox, Soho, Google Drive)
  • [ ] Roadmapping and priorities tool (e.g. JIRA, ProductBoard, Trello)
  • [ ] Data tools (e.g. Pendo, Google Analytics, Good Data)
• [ ] Compliance courses
  • [ ] GDPR (very important for a researcher since you’ll be accessing data and sensitive information potentially)
  • [ ] HR Policies
  • [ ] Security
  • [ ] Other company compliance courses
• [ ] Teammates
  • [ ] Understand team rituals (collaboration, feedback, communication, updates)
  • [ ] Meet team members and get onboarding advice
    • [ ] What they wish they knew when they started
• [ ] Stakeholders
  • [ ] Start to identify and reach out to stakeholders
  • [ ] Schedule meetings for the following weeks
  • [ ] Understand your assigned product/focus’ goals
• [ ] Research processes
  • [ ] Understand research processes
    • [ ] Recruitment and general userbase
    • [ ] Timeframes
    • [ ] Incentives
    • [ ] Storage of data

Day 14

• [ ] Stakeholders
  • [ ] Continue meeting direct and indirect stakeholders
  • [ ] Gathering potential areas where there’s a lack of research or outstanding questions
• [ ] Team goals
  • [ ] Understanding what value you can bring to the team and any gaps
• [ ] Manager’s goals
  • [ ] Understanding what responsibilities your manager and the team have been tasked with
  • [ ] Identifying your manager’s goals for you and your area specifically

Day 30

• [ ] Deepening your understanding of the business
  • Looking at data readily available (link to article)
  • Covering your scrum team or research team about their goals (short term)
  • Reviewing the product roadmap for the year (mid term)
  • Review the business goals and strategy for the next few years (long term)
  • Understanding the industry landscape
  • Heavily testing out the products/services of your company
  • Heuristic review of your product area
  • Reviewing past research
• [ ] Getting up to speed with any new research tools or research methods used by the team
  • [ ] Reading the internal material about the tools
  • [ ] Watching any videos or material created by the tools
  • [ ] Shadowing other researchers conducting research

Day 60