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Update Manage:Analytics to Manage:Value Stream Management

Jeremy Watson (ex-GitLab) requested to merge group-update-analytics-to-vsm into master

Why is this change being made?

As detailed in Product#1572 (closed), the term "analytics" is overloaded. The name for the Analytics group now directly conflicts with the Product Analytics group, and the term "analytics" itself is overly broad.

Based on the name alone, it's not clear whether or not the group handles product analytics, telemetry improvements, visualizing data, and could be misconstrued with Monitor capabilities. Instead, we should look for a better term that specifically covers what the group does: improving the flow of value throughout the product and make development processes more efficient.

That definition covers the industry term of value stream management, so we should simply realign the group's name toward that.

If approved and merged, we'll follow up with a more extensive MR replacing "Manage:Analytics" elsewhere (e.g. team.yml)

Closes Product#1572 (closed)

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Edited by Jeremy Watson (ex-GitLab)

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