Inheriting a tenant means inheriting years of decisions with no decision log. The first-week goal is not to fix anything; it is to build an accurate picture of what exists, which defects are urgent, and what baseline you will measure your tenure against.
The first-week survey#
Map before touching:
- Shape: the group hierarchy, its depth, and its obvious tangles.
- Money: which groups carry licenses and where spend concentrates.
- Defects: circular references, orphans, overlaps, and deep chains, ranked.
- Exceptions: the odd structures that are probably load bearing; note them before judging them.
Baseline everything#
Capture the as-found state before your first change. The baseline protects you twice: it separates inherited problems from anything you cause, and it makes your cleanup progress provable rather than anecdotal when someone asks what you have accomplished.
How VisualizerEngine does it
Onboarding is a read-only consent link, so the survey starts the same day: the full hierarchy, license flows, and ranked defects are the landing view rather than a month of scripting. A first-day snapshot is the defensible baseline, and every later diff documents your progress against it.