Add Plan OKR Drafting steps
Why is this change being made?
See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/plan/-/issues/854#note_1291833499
This MR is an attempt to put some guidance down for OKR hierarchies in Plan. It is intended to:
- Reduce the overhead in creating and measuring the progression of OKRs for EMs and SEM.
- Result in simple, consistent, shallow OKR hierarchies that preserve progress roll-ups where those should happen.
- Encourage minimal numbers of assignees per KR (ideally a single DRI).
- Work around some of the shortcomings of the OKR MVC while Plan and the SEG resolve those.
It should encourage OKR hierarchies that look like this:
flowchart TD
A[Plan Objective] --> B[Project Management KR]
A --> C[Product Planning KR]
A --> D[Optimize KR]
A --> E[Knowledge KR]
A --> G[SEM KR]
A --> H[Principal Engineer KR]
F[Plan Objective] --> I[Optimize KR]
F --> J[Knowledge KR]
F --> K[Product Planning KR]
F --> L[Project Management KR]
And avoid those that result in 'orphaned' Objectives that aren't visible in roll-up calculations:
flowchart TD
A[Stage-owned Objective A] --> B(Stage-owned KR)
D[Group-owned Objective for A] --> S(Group-owned KR)
D --> T(Group-owned KR)
D --> U(Group-owned KR)
A --> C(Group-owned KR)
Or those that result in unnecessarily complex hierarchies:
flowchart TD
A[Stage-owned Objective] --> B(Stage-owned KR)
A --> D[Stage-owned Objective]
D --> E[Group-owned Objective]
E --> S(Group-owned KR)
E --> T(Group-owned KR)
E --> U(Group-owned KR)
A --> C(Group-owned KR)
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Edited by John Hope