Application of onboarding in product IT project team management

The article examines the peculiarities of IT project management in product companies. Usually, the team of such a project will be updated for a long time. The intensity of such an update will depend on the number of the company's products, the growth of their functionality and the number of customers. Team management is considered in the sense of adapting new team members to the features of the product that is developed and administered by the IT company. The peculiarity of this process is that it should be connected with the features of the product. The training processes should take place in the form of mentoring, in the role of leading specialists of the company. The article reviews literature sources on approaches to training and adoption of new employees. The role of intellectual capital in the created values for the company and the product is highlighted. Onboarding technology is analyzed, its advantages and disadvantages are determined. Based on the results of the analysis, an approach was developed for the adoption of new members of the product project team in two directions: 1) courses to improve technical competences; 2) activities to acquaint newcomers with business processes and the company's corporate culture. The measures that were developed for specific projects in the above-mentioned directions are presented.