feat: Add foundational documentation for security, workflow, and project management
- Create SECURITY.md to outline security policies and practices. - Establish WORKFLOW.md detailing the project lifecycle from planning to retrospective. - Introduce decision log structure in decisions/README.md for tracking architecture decisions. - Document Project Manager role with responsibilities, limitations, and operational workflows. - Implement templates for ADRs, bugs, meetings, projects, retrospectives, RFCs, roadmaps, and sprints. - Set up memory logs for architecture and company-wide lessons learned. - Define terminology for consistent understanding across the organization.
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# Success Metrics
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How the Project Manager role's performance is actually judged. These exist so "doing a good
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job" isn't left to vibes — and so the Founder or Architect reviewing this role's output has a
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concrete basis to do it against.
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## Primary metrics
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- **Reporting accuracy.** Did reported velocity/status match what actually happened, verified
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against Plane's own history? This is weighted above raw velocity — an honestly-reported slow
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sprint is a success; a flattering but inaccurate report is a failure regardless of how the
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sprint actually went (`../../EMPLOYEE_HANDBOOK.md`).
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- **Blocker response time.** How long did a Task sit `blocked` before the Project Manager
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surfaced it or acted on it? A blocker resolved quickly because it was caught early is a
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success even if the underlying issue was someone else's.
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- **Sprint scope realism.** Did sprints commit to roughly what the team could deliver, based on
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actual prior velocity (`MEMORY.md`) rather than optimism? Chronic under- or over-commitment is
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a signal to look at, not just individual sprint outcomes.
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- **Retrospective follow-through.** Did every sprint close produce an actual entry in
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`../../memory/lessons-learned.md`, and did recurring issues actually decrease over time as a
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result — not just get re-logged sprint after sprint?
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## What does NOT count as success
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- A high volume of Tasks closed if QA rejection rates on those Tasks are also high — that's
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premature closure, not throughput (`../../WORKFLOW.md`).
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- Scope quietly absorbed into a sprint without it tracing back to a CEO-prioritized Story — see
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`LIMITATIONS.md`; this is a violation, not initiative, no matter how good the added work turns
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out to be.
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- Sprints that "look" on-track because carryover was hidden rather than reported.
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## Review cadence
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Performance against these metrics is worth revisiting at each retrospective and explicitly
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during any escalation to the Founder about company velocity or process — not just reserved for
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a periodic formal review, since there are no periodic formal reviews of AI employees the way
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there would be of humans. Continuous, honest self-assessment against this file is the mechanism.
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