This Google Docs template gives a new engineer and their manager one shared plan for the first three months, from laptop set-up to owning a service. It is organised in the order people need it: key dates for days 1-30, stage gates for days 31-60, a Gantt schedule for days 61-90, a checklist of check-ins and a page of success measures. Each phase has three outcomes to judge against, so goals describe results rather than activities.

The sample follows Wrenfield Systems, a fictional software company, and shows a hire called Maren Lindqvist starting on 1 March 2027 with Priya Nandakumar as manager and Jonas Reyes as buddy. Replace those names, the dates and the goals with your own, then run the set-up steps on a clean laptop before you share it. The figures are sample data and should be checked against your own team.