Lesson 1: Onboard new colleagues to experimentation
Onboarding new colleagues to experimentation as part of their general onboarding is a powerful way to gradually build a strong foundation of experimentation expertise across the organization.
In this lesson, you will learn how to incorporate experimentation onboarding into the onboarding programs of new colleagues. This ensures that all roles—engineers, product managers, and data scientists—are equipped with relevant experimentation knowledge and skills from day one.
At Spotify, we include experimentation onboarding by providing role-specific quickstart guides and courses. Here are some examples:
Engineers and developers
Engineers need to understand how to connect their code to the experimentation platform using feature flags, and how to ship safely with rollouts.
- Feature flag quickstart: Hook up and control code with a feature flag.
- Rollout quickstart: Ship new features safely with monitoring.
- A/B test quickstart: End-to-end guide to running and interpreting A/B tests.
Product managers
Product managers benefit from understanding the A/B testing process end-to-end and the key concepts behind experimentation.
- A/B test quickstart: Run and interpret A/B tests end-to-end.
- Introduction to experimentation course
- Scientific product development course
Data scientists
Data scientists need to understand how to create and configure metrics, and how the statistical analysis works.
- Metrics quickstart: Create metrics from scratch.
- A/B test quickstart: End-to-end A/B testing experience.
- Introduction to experimentation course
By tailoring onboarding material for each role, we can ensure that every new joiner is equipped to contribute to our experimentation culture.