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DDLC

Knowledge Debt

Knowledge debt is the accumulated cost of undocumented, poorly documented, or outdated information within an organization. It builds the same way technical debt does — through shortcuts, deferred maintenance, and the absence of systems to capture and preserve knowledge as it is created.
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Governance

Governance is the set of policies, processes, ownership structures, and standards that determine how something is managed, maintained, and held accountable over time. It defines who is responsible for what, how decisions get made, and what happens when things change, fail, or no longer serve their purpose. Governance can apply to content, systems, data, organizations,…
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CCMS

A component content management system (CCMS) is a specialized type of CMS designed around reusable content components rather than whole pages or documents. Instead of managing content as complete articles or guides, a CCMS stores content at the component level — individual topics, sections, warnings, or procedures — that can be assembled, reused, and published…
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CMS

A content management system is a software platform for creating, organizing, managing, and publishing content. It provides a structured environment for authoring and storing content, managing who can access and edit it, and controlling how and where it gets published. Most CMS platforms are designed around pages or posts as the primary unit of content.
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Drift

Drift is the gradual, often unintended divergence of a system, document, or process from its original intended state, design, or specification. It rarely happens through a single event. It accumulates through small, disconnected changes over time. None of which individually seem significant enough to trigger a review or correction.
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Docs-as-Code

Docs-as-code is an approach to documentation that applies the discipline, rigor, and structural thinking of software development to documentation work.
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Pipeline

A pipeline is a defined sequence of stages that moves something (i.e., code, content, or data) through a process from start to finish. Each stage has a defined input, output, and handoff point.
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DDLC

The Documentation Development Lifecycle (DDLC) is the end-to-end process of planning, creating, reviewing, publishing, maintaining, and retiring documentation. It mirrors the structure of a software development lifecycle but applied specifically to documentation work.
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CI/CD

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery or Deployment is a development practice where code (or documentation) changes are automatically tested and prepared for release as soon as they’re submitted.
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