MVC Definition Updates - MR 1

Why is this change being made?

As GitLab has grown, so have customer expectations of our product stability, quality, and overall value delivered. We must evolve our practices to keep up with our customers' expectations and remain competitive. To do so, we are changing the name and definition of Minimal Viable Change to Minimal Valuable Change.

We updated the Handbook with this change as documented in this MR and the changes included:

1. Simplified definition to focus on measurable results for customers
2. Connecting an MVC to our support levels and definition of done criteria more explicitly, optimizing for GA quality as the minimum valuable change, rather than experimental or beta quality.
3. Changing the “V” in MVC from viable to valuable

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Commits

• MVC defintion updates 1

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