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Change organizational structure for product process section of handbook

Natalie Pinto requested to merge revised-handbook-structure-npinto-9July2024 into main

Why is this change being made?

I noticed that (a) there were some pages that were no longer relevant and (b) we didn't have a great place to document operating cadences. I moved some pages around, deleted a couple unnecessary pages, and merged content into more logical places. Here's a list of the changes:

  1. Create "operating cadences" folder, under the "product process" folder
  2. Move "people group for Product Management" up a level to the "product process" folder
  3. Move content from the "Product Management Procedures" page to the "operating cadences" and the "How to Engage with Product Management" pages, depending on the nature of the content.
  4. Move "board meeting prep" pages under the "operating cadences" folder
  5. Delete the "product operations procedures" folder (which is now empty, given above changes)
  6. Delete "product management operations" folder (which is now empty, given above changes)

This MR does not include any changes to the existing content, only where the content is recorded within the handbook.

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Commits

  • Update 8 files
  • /content/handbook/product/product-processes/product-mgt-operations/pm-operating-procedures/_index.md
  • /content/handbook/product/product-processes/product-mgt-operations/pm-operating-procedures/people-ops-for-product.md
  • /content/handbook/product/product-processes/product-mgt-operations/_index.md
  • /content/handbook/product/product-processes/product-mgt-operations/board-deck-prep.md
  • /content/handbook/product/product-processes/operating-cadences/_index.md
  • /content/handbook/product/product-processes/operating-cadences/board-deck-prep.md
  • /content/handbook/product/product-processes/people-ops-for-product.md
  • /content/handbook/product/how-to-engage.md

Edited by Natalie Pinto

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