The “thirty sixty ninety” is our way of getting a new hire up to speed within the first three months of starting at Poll Everywhere. We provide check-ins for feedback every 30 days for those first three months. The purpose is to provide a very clear and realistic path to being successful and meaningful contributor to the company’s products. Here’s an example 30/60/90:

30 days

• Demo work you’ve done to the team
• Speak up during a retro! Provide the dev team feedback on their current processes (or what your previous company was doing) - a bulletpoint.
• Write a page in chopper about the new and improved debugging process! Present after stand-up as a PEU. (Longer lesson if you pitch it as “how to debug a rails app”)

60 days

• Implement, test, and ship 1-2 point rails stories on your own
• Understand how the Poll Everywhere frontend and backend stack work together (e.g. how do assets fit into rails_app)
• Investigate and fix an airbrake error
• Roast the dev team on convoluted code or processes. Recommend how we can fix these problems!

90 days

• Be widely recognized by the team as a full stack web developer (on the PE stack)
• Ability to point a Rails pivotal story
• Be the lead developer on an epic
• Find yourself (be famous for something!)

Defining good goals

The key to a successful 30/60/90 is clear and actionable goals. Here are a few examples:

• Contribute to a project (bad)
• Fix 5 bugs in rails app (good)
• Implement 1 feature in rails app (good)