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Update process for Kanban hybrid

Jerome Z Ng requested to merge patch-1982611226885848 into master

Why is this change being made?

This MR implements the changes proposed in RFC: Update project management process to use a hybrid of Kanban gitlab-org/growth/team-tasks#147 (closed)

  • Replaces the Product Development Timeline with a Project Management Process
  • Removes milestone planning, milestone capacity, and milestone commitments
  • Adds weekly refinement and monthly roadmap planning
  • Explicitly outlines workflow stages
  • Adds due dates section
  • Renames PM initiatives to Product initiatives
  • Minor formatting / grammar updates
  • Removes the use of ~workflow::verification and instead adds the use of ~workflow::staging and workflow::production
  • Make it explicit that prioritization of a product roadmap is the responsibility of a product manager. Every epic / issue on a product roadmap should have a priority.

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Edited by Jerome Z Ng

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