• George Perez posted an update

      6 weeks ago (edited)

      Collaboration

      How to onboard new remote members into an existing ongoing research collabor...

      Collaboration

      Adding new people mid‑project brings knowledge transfer challenges. Project context, prior decisions and data conventions are not obvious for newcomers. What routines help onboard new collaborators quickly?

      Jun Shen, Jun Dong and 64 others
      4 Comments
      • Prepare a living background document summarising project history and past major decisions.

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        • Assign an existing team member as dedicated onboarding buddy for the new participant.

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          • Share annotated examples of existing data and code conventions they need to follow.

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            • Schedule several Q&A sessions for them to ask basic background‑context questions.

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