How to take over a new team as a lead
summary
Senior producer from Pixel Federation transfers into a failing project six months ago after leading Diggy's Adventure (>100M € lifetime netto) and applies a checklist: play the game, read all docs, pull KPIs in Power BI and trends, and prepare precise questions. First month focuses on 20 interviews in a month, sitting with teams, auditing Slack and Jira flows, then replacing ~90% of the old vision with a new, measurable roadmap, fixing common low‑hanging blockers, protecting the team, and showing quicker workflow improvements.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 5:31Due diligence
- 8:19First steps
- 12:09Your vision
- 16:18Show your value
- 19:25Recent experience
- 26:10Key takeaways
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