Interesting. Fourteen years after the original Joel Test[1], is this a more current version of it?<p>Related, I write about what's necessary to onboard any sort of new person to a project (specifically open source, but it would apply to an in-house team onboarding a new employee as well) here: <a href="http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/" rel="nofollow">http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/</a><p>[1]: <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html</a>