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Mention non-ticket work in baseline guidance

Manuel Grabowski requested to merge mg-removebaselinehardcoding-20230215 into master

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I think non-ticket work should be mentioned here explicitly, this would be in accordance with prioritizing it a bit higher in Reflect current reality of how Support work is ... (!119362 - merged) as well. Also some minor wording changes.

Originally this MR had a larger scope, preserving the text here: - Finally, removing the hardcoded baseline numbers: - They are most likely somewhat outdated, I remember that came up in a 1:1 many many months ago once before - The dashboard with dynamically updating baselines does not actually have values for "number of first responses", it only has public comments, internal comments and solved.

If we really do value "number of first responses" as a metric, we should add it to this dynamic dashboard. That should be possible, considering that the individual dashboards have a FRT number. I'm not sure if we really want that as a metric, though. Unless it is worded imprecisely, it's not really what we want.

What we want is: FRTs in the sense of "first response and assigned". But I'm also not convinced that this combined metric is all that valuable. Why should an assignment not count if I take it after someone else sent the FRT? In my opinion the existing metrics in the dynamic dashboard (public comments, internal comments, solved) are more than enough to gauge your performance with tickets. If we want to add another one, I'd make it a generic "Assignments" one, not coupled to FRTs. (That also exists already in the individual one.) That is all something that could be discussed at length in a follow-up iteration, though. For now, I think that removing the hardcoded numbers in favor of only linking to the dynamic ones is an improvement.

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