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The complete guide to onboarding your team

Sam Alvarez·Head of ProductJul 10, 20268 min read
The complete guide to onboarding your team

Start with one team

Rolling out a new content hub to the whole company at once rarely works. Pick a single team, usually engineering, and give them full ownership of the changelog for the first month.

Set a tagging convention early

Decide how you'll use New, Improved, and Fixed before your first entry goes out. Retrofitting a convention after twenty releases is far more painful than agreeing on one up front.

Wire it into existing habits

Link the changelog from your release PR template and your Slack deploy bot. The goal is for writing an entry to feel like a natural part of shipping, not an extra chore.