Add cross-functional personas and process integration docs

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octoacme-roles-and-personas.md only covered Developers, Product Managers, and Project Managers — leaving UX, DevOps, BA, and Support undocumented, creating ambiguity around handoffs and accountability.

New personas (octoacme-roles-and-personas.md)

Four personas added, each with Role Summary, Responsibilities, Goals, and explicit Interactions with existing roles and ceremonies:

• UX/UI Designer — design handoffs, sprint reviews, acceptance criteria for usability
• DevOps Engineer — CI/CD ownership, release gates, incident rollback
• Business Analyst — requirements elaboration, acceptance criteria, traceability
• Customer Support Lead — post-release monitoring, support runbooks, bug signal escalation

Cross-functional touchpoints added to existing docs

• octoacme-project-planning.md: "Cross-Functional Inputs to Planning" — per-role contributions to backlog refinement and Definition of Done
• octoacme-execution-and-tracking.md: "Cross-Functional Collaboration Touchpoints" — design reviews, release readiness checks, incident triage loops
• octoacme-release-and-deployment.md: "Cross-Functional Ownership at Release" — ownership table, support readiness gate, DevOps-owned monitoring/rollback triggers
• octoacme-risks-and-communication.md: Operational risk signal sources (Support queue, DevOps metrics) and a role-based escalation path table

New doc: octoacme-cross-functional-collaboration-checklist.md

Phase-by-phase checklist (Initiation → Planning → Execution → Release → Retro) with per-phase handoff tables, key questions, and ownership. Referenced from the roles doc and each updated process doc.

Original prompt

Create a pull request in HarshitMCT/skills-scale-institutional-knowledge-using-copilot-spaces that implements process documentation improvements, and link the PR to issue #4.

Context

• Issue: Adding more personas and roles to the project management processes #4 ("Adding more personas and roles to the project management processes").
• All process documents live in docs/.

Primary goals

1. Expand and improve roles/personas documentation to close clarity and accountability gaps.

   • Update docs/octoacme-roles-and-personas.md to include additional personas/roles beyond the existing Developers, Product Managers, and Project Managers.
   • Add at least the following new personas (from issue Adding more personas and roles to the project management processes #4):
     • UX/UI Designer
     • DevOps Engineer
     • Business Analyst
     • Customer Support Lead
   • For each new persona, include:
     • Role Summary
     • Responsibilities (bulleted)
     • Goals (bulleted)
     • Typical Communication / Interactions (bulleted) that explicitly references how they interact with existing roles (Project Manager, Product Manager, Developers) and common ceremonies/artifacts in the other docs (planning, execution/tracking, risk & communication, release/deployment, retro).

2. Add lightweight process improvements to other docs to reflect these roles and reduce handoff ambiguity.

   • Update relevant existing documents in docs/ (only where it improves clarity, avoid large rewrites). Suggested updates:
     • docs/octoacme-project-planning.md: Add a small section or bullets clarifying involvement/inputs from UX, BA, DevOps, Support in backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, estimation, definition of done.
     • docs/octoacme-execution-and-tracking.md: Add collaboration touchpoints (design reviews, release readiness checks, incident triage loops).
     • docs/octoacme-release-and-deployment.md: Add explicit collaboration/ownership touchpoints for DevOps and Support (release comms, monitoring, rollback responsibilities).
     • docs/octoacme-risks-and-communication.md: Clarify risk ownership escalation paths and how Support and DevOps feed operational risk signals.
   • Keep changes consistent with existing tone and structure.

3. Add a new checklist/template doc (in docs/) to make the role interactions actionable.

   • Create a new document, e.g. docs/octoacme-cross-functional-collaboration-checklist.md (or similar), that provides:
     • A phase-by-phase checklist (Initiation, Planning, Execution, Release, Retro)
     • For each phase, list key questions and required handoffs/inputs and which persona owns or contributes.
     • Keep it short and practical.

PR requirements

• The PR must mention and link issue Adding more personas and roles to the project management processes #4 in its description/body (e.g., "Closes Adding more personas and roles to the project management processes #4" or "Fixes Adding more personas and roles to the project management processes #4" as appropriate).
• Ensure all new/updated docs are in docs/.
• Add HarshitMCT as a reviewer on the pull request.
• Follow existing markdown style; use headings and horizontal rules consistent with the current docs.

Acceptance criteria

• docs/octoacme-roles-and-personas.md includes the four new personas with the required subsections and explicit interactions with existing roles.
• At least two other existing process docs in docs/ are updated to incorporate cross-functional role touchpoints.
• A new checklist/template doc exists under docs/ and is referenced from at least one existing doc (preferably the overview or roles doc).
• PR is linked to issue Adding more personas and roles to the project management processes #4 and requests review from HarshitMCT.

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