{"id":468,"date":"2015-02-12T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waterfrontartists.com\/thomlee\/?p=468"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:07:43","slug":"joining-a-new-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Joining a new team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, our offices have been doing something we have taken to calling the &#8220;task order shuffle&#8221;. One project runs out of money and the team members have to be rapidly dispersed to other teams where they can be useful. It&#8217;s a less than ideal situation but, in some environments, it&#8217;s unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>For me, I&#8217;ve found that the best way to start adding value to a new team, right away is to start doing user testing on the software. Unless they have been doing it regularly before you got there, it&#8217;s a great source of new information and direction that is best gathered by someone new to the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, our offices have been doing something we have taken to calling the &#8220;task order shuffle&#8221;. One project runs out <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/?p=468\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue Reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xYXg-7y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomlee.site.aplus.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}