Research Plan 7: Onboarding TWE Team volunteers

Research Plan 7: Onboarding TWE Team Volunteers

Research Date:

• This research plan was not completed in time. No data was collected during IS22.
• Research Year:
• Participant Type: TWE Team Members
  • Participant Type Abbreviation: TWETM
  • For more naming convention info, please see issue #347 and the naming convention sheet
• Interview Type: Intake

Research Roadmap (this research is a subset of this roadmap)

• Wiki page: TWE team member (volunteer)
• Roadmap document: TWE: Research Roadmap: TWE Team Members

Summary of Research

Question (Proposed)

• What are the expectations, current skills, and goals for TWE team volunteers to join this project?
• What are the pain points when TWE team volunteers onboard the project?

Purpose

• We need to consolidate documentation to create an effective onboarding experience for new TWE team volunteers so that they can quickly catch up on the project status and next steps.
• Volunteers in this research plan specifically refer to the volunteers on the TWE team who contribute to the planning, organization, and implementation of the project, not the interns or the mentors.

Participant Type

• TWE team members

Methods

TBD

Current Status

• This research plan was not completed in time. No data was collected.

All Issues

• Label: Research: RP007
• Label: feature: Volunteer Onboarding **
• Label: feature: FAQ for volunteers **
• Label: feature: recruitment **

** Due to the interchangeable use of volunteers across various issues, the features marked with **s are not exclusively referred to only TWE team volunteers. They sometimes refer to interns and mentors who participate in the project.

Outstanding task items

• Research roadmap needs to be completed.
• Research plan needs to be created.
• Existing documentation in RP007 Google Drive folder needs to reviewed, depreciated, or updated with current branding.

Assets

Google Drive folders

• Type folder: TWE team member (volunteer)

• RP Folder: RP7

• Issue for Onboarding & Offboarding Team Members

• RP7 Google Drive folder

Relevant Wiki Pages

• TWE Internship Brand Book
• Volunteer Overview
• Current onboarding process
  • Current onboarding process for project leads
• Resources for TWE Volunteers

Research Plan (including Audience Identification documentation)

• The research plan has not been created yet.

Scripts

• The scripts for researching TWE Team volunteers onboarding have not been created yet.

Sample Onboarding Surveys from HfLA

• There are surveys distributed to HfLA members' onboarding in the past as references.
  • Surveys distributed to HfLA members, not just TWE Team members:
    • HfLA Remote Onboarding Survey;
    • Old HfLA Onboarding Survey;
    • Old HfLA New Member Survey

Interview recordings & Transcripts

• No data has been collected.

Synthesis (Miro or Figjam)

• No research synthesis has been done.

Presentation of Findings

• No research has been done.

Action Items Spreadsheet

• Not yet created.

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Related Research Wiki Pages

• Research Home page
• Research Output Overview
• WIKI Template for Research