I've got a performance review coming up. It's not my first one at the company, but it will be the first time I'll be actively pushing for a promotion. It's also the first review with a new format, where we'll need to align our accomplishments with company values and our roles' "competencies"—10 in total, which seems like quite a lot to me. In light of that, I have a few questions:
I'll be actively pushing for a promotion
Will this performance review summary document be a promotion packet or a normal review where you would want to get an exceed rating to solidify your promotion case in near future review cycles?
Does your company have publicly available document examples for some performance reviews or promotion packets? If so, the document can provide answer to many of your questions. To answer your questions:
If you have good working relationship with some of your peers at +1 or +2 level, they might be open to help here. Having a glimpse at their document may help reveal the expected length of the document and in general the number of achievements to mention.
For example, I had a review document with relatively bad wording and was lengthy. However, I realized only when one of the engineers at +1 level showed me his document's first page as a glimpse.
How long should a self-review generally be?
Does your company not have guidance here? At Facebook, they were pretty prescriptive about word count, I believe the recommended 1500 words? I'd follow your company guidance and also run it by your manager.
Should I cover all or as many of these values and competencies as I can, or should I focus on just a few of them?
The way I'd normally structure my self-review would be a narrative at the top (what is the thing you want people to remember), followed by data to support each specific dimension that your company/manager cares about. More here: Making The BEST Case For Yourself In Performance Review: The Self Review