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Update how we work to include capacity planning and weight

Kassandra Svoboda requested to merge ksvoboda-how-we-capacity-plan-weights into main

Why is this change being made?

While trying to bring more visibility to the work our team does, the "how we work" also comes to mind. In FY24 Q4, we began milestone planning and in our efforts to continue milestone planning we must define our teams capacity. Post QE transformation into Test Platform our team has moved away from direct counterpart and become one unison team, Self-Managed Platform.

Our team handles various responsibilities (BAU, general housekeeping), while also working OKRs per quarter. Through capacity planning, we are hopeful to get a better sense of the teams current workload and how to best fit in issues/tasks of different weights that are of higher priority than other issues/tasks.

This MR will be iteration one of capacity planning as we continue to improve this process throughout each milestone and especially as our team members further knowledge share

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Edited by Kassandra Svoboda

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