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Add responsibilities and workflow for stage leads

Kati Paizee requested to merge kpaizee-main-patch-61350 into main

Why is this change being made?

Adding some details for Technical Writing stage leads and how we anticipate they will spend their time and plan feature work.

  • As much as possible, I think we should adapt existing processes rather than trying to create new ones. I've suggested some tweaks for the feature development workflow.
  • We need to define a stage lead, but without it sounding like a whole new role. The definition should probably live here?: https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/product/technical-writer/ Add the definition to the workflow page. This is not a new role, it's a different focus/flow of work.
  • Still to do: figure out a workflow for new/enhanced content that stage leads will drive. This is not the same as backlog work.

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Edited by Kati Paizee

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