1. Introduce yourself, your background, your values 2. Announce your intentions (see below) 3. As robertcope suggests, start off by observing and building rel

1. Introduce yourself, your background, your values 2. Announce your intentions (see below) 3. As robertcope suggests, start off by observing and building relationships. If you have experience in what the team does, pitch in and get your hands dirty and learn the [codebase, processes, etc.] 4. A couple months of step 3 will accomplish 2 things: it will give you insight into what really is and isn’t working well for the team; and it will build you the political capital you need to get people onboard with changes. At this point you can start making suggestions. You should also by now be making yourself an advocate for your team’s needs with upper management.