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First 90 Days Ramp-Up Log: Getting to Your Own Results as a New Hire
Intermediate | 1 whiteboard page · Task board: 4 columns (5 parent tasks, 13 subtasks)
Intermediate: Method names appear, but the whiteboard explains the key points. Use the examples as a guide and fill it in, thinking it through for your own situation.
The First 90 Days Ramp-Up Log is a 30-60-90 day onboarding template that a brand-new hire opens on day one and updates every week while working toward doing the job alone. The whiteboard holds a declaration of what passing means in numbers, a 3x3 table of what to reach by day 30, 60 and 90, a mind map inventory of the work you own, and a fifteen-minute Friday KPT retrospective (Keep, Problem, Try). The task board runs four columns - to learn, learning now, trying it solo, can do it alone - and ships with five parent tasks and 13 subtasks untouched, covering the whole job, the routine in 30 days, working solo by day 60, one improvement by day 90, and aligning with your manager. Because passing is defined in numbers before you start, a gap with your manager's expectations shows up at the day-30 self-scoring instead of at day 90.
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First 90 Days Ramp-Up Log
How to use: 1. Put a number on what passing means 2. Set the 30/60/90-day bars 3. Run KPT on Friday 4. Grade the table yourself
1. Who You Want to Be at Day 90 (declare what passing means)
- Who you want to be at day 90 e.g. Running quotes and order entry on my own, and closing the month end without a check.
- Three numbers that define passing (hold these past day 90) 1. A quote built in 30 minutes or less 2. No more than one rework a month 3. Month end closed the day before the deadline
- What is blocking you right now - Half the terms used in meetings mean nothing to you - Working out who to ask costs you 30 minutes every time - Writing up the minutes takes you three hours
- Checkpoint dates (the targets live in table 2) Day 30 Sep 20 / Day 60 Oct 20 / Day 90 Nov 19
2. What to Reach by Day 30, 60, and 90 (know it, do it, own it)
| Day 30 (know it) | Day 60 (do it solo) | Day 90 (improve it) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge of the work | Finished reading the manuals for all three jobs Can give 20 meeting terms with their meaning | Can explain the monthly cycle without the manual Can name three edge cases and how to handle them | Found and fixed two places the manual was wrong Tidied the manual enough to hand to the next hire |
| What you do alone | Took one quote from start to submission with a senior watching Reworks are down to two a week or fewer | Can submit a quote with no check first (30 minutes each) Reworks are down to one a month or fewer | Can answer a request with no precedent, giving your reasoning Can close the month end the day before the deadline |
| Working with others | Picked three go-to people and locked 15 weekly minutes with your manager Ask about any term you do not know the same day | Go straight to your counterpart in another team yourself Flag a slipping deadline the day you notice it | Can teach the steps to peers and to next year's new hires Explained an improvement in your own words at the team meeting |
3. Inventory of the Work You Own (whose what, and how far)
- Work
inventory
- Daily work Order entry, checks
- Monthly work Closing, last 5 days
- Who requests 3 reps and my boss
- Who receives Finance, days 1-3
- Who teaches 2 seniors, next team
- Not yours yet Credit calls - my boss
4. Fifteen-Minute Friday Retrospective (KPT)
Keep (carry on)
- Named the three things I would finish today at the stand-up
- Reported progress two days before the deadline
- Moved order entry into the Can do it alone column
Problem (what hurt)
- The same rework came back twice - wrong name on the address line
- Wednesday interruptions blew my quote estimate out by double
Try (next week)
- Meet interruptions with a promise to reply in 30 minutes
- Add each returned correction to the manual, one line at a time
5. What to Do When You Are Stuck
- If 15 minutes of digging gets you nowhere, do not sit on it - ask a go-to person
- Open with what you tried and where exactly it stopped
- Write the answer down on the spot and bring it to Friday's KPT
6. What to Cover in the 15 Minutes With Your Manager
- Raise your own partials and misses first, with the reason for each
- Check that your manager's expectations match the bar you set
- Ask what you can be trusted with next month
Task board contents
To learn 18 items
See the whole job
Work out what you have been handed before anything else. Learn the individual steps without the full picture and you can never set your own priorities.
List your 10 duties
From the manuals and what your seniors tell you, name ten pieces of work you touch and lay them out on the inventory mind map.
Map the handoffs
For each piece of work, write one line on who it comes from and who you hand it to.
Pick 3 go-to people
Choose one person each for the work itself, the systems, and internal admin, and write their names on the board.
Learn the routine
Spend the first month learning the steps. Working from the manual is fine, as long as you run each job end to end with your own hands.
Annotate the manual
Add notes in your own words wherever the manual left you guessing.
Run each job once
With a senior watching, take each of your three main jobs from start to submission once.
Work solo by day 60
In month two, cut back the checks and widen what you decide yourself. Judge your progress by how often work comes back to you.
Submit 3 unchecked
Send three pieces of work without a senior reviewing them first, and log only the points that came back.
Log every rework
Record each correction in one line and read them back at the Friday KPT.
Write 3 edge cases
Note three times the work did not follow the manual, and check the calls you made with a senior.
Propose one fix
Turn exactly one piece of waste you can now see into something concrete. What feels off to you as a newcomer is the raw material.
Pick the top rework
Look over your logged corrections and pick the one job that eats the most of your time and everyone else's.
Fit it on one page
Put the cost today, the change you propose, and the time it saves on a single page.
Align with manager
Check regularly that the bar you set for yourself still matches what your manager expects. The sooner a gap shows up, the cheaper it is to close.
Book 15 min weekly
In your first week, lock in a standing fifteen minutes on the same day every week.
Show them your bar
Put the 30, 60, and 90-day table in front of your manager and confirm out loud that it matches their expectations.
Self-score day 30
Mark every cell of the table pass, partial, or miss, add one line of reasoning to each partial and miss, and bring it to the meeting.
