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Update to PE planning process to allow better team commitments

Caroline Simpson requested to merge carolinesimpson-master-patch-08509 into master

Why is this change being made?

Currently @jheimbuck_gl and @carolinesimpson are committing on behalf of the team to Deliverables. As a team we are not meeting these Deliverables. This adjustment should allow engineers to take more ownership over the commitment and have a greater say in how much work we are committing to finish. Since each engineer is the best judge of their capacity, this will hopefully allow for more accurate planning.

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