Plan new job onboarding tasks.
Onboarding drifts because it has no deadline pressure — nothing breaks if the security training or the third stakeholder introduction slips a fortnight. Comparing the rate you have achieved so far against the rate the remaining tasks require makes the drift visible early, while there is still time to book the sessions rather than discovering in month three that half the list is untouched.
Onboarding pace check
Completion = completed / total x 100; days left = target days - days since start; tasks per day needed = remaining / days left; compare with completed / days since start
Access and equipment, mandatory training, one-to-ones with each stakeholder, a walkthrough of each system you will own, reading the last two quarters of team documentation, and a first small deliverable shipped end to end.
Thirty days for administrative and access items, ninety for genuine productive independence in a professional role. Roles with deep domain complexity take longer and it is better to plan for it than to pretend otherwise.
Anything blocking others and anything with a compliance deadline. Stakeholder introductions can slide by a week without harm; missing mandatory training or lacking access that stalls a colleague cannot.