| Definition |
Continuous Improvement is the ongoing effort to improve products, services, processes, or performance over time.
Continuous Improvement (ci) is a concept used to plan, explain, support, or measure organizational change. In Change Management, it gives practitioners and stakeholders shared language for moving from a current state to a desired future state.
Continuous Improvement is a DevOps delivery-automation concept used to build, validate, package, and release software changes through repeatable pipeline stages.
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| Context & Usage |
It is used in operations, quality management, customer service, software delivery, and organizational learning.
Practitioners use this concept to plan communication, sponsorship, readiness, adoption, and reinforcement activities around an organizational change.
Related concepts include Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement.
Developers, release engineers, testers, and operations teams use this concept to create faster feedback, consistent quality gates, and safer releases.
Related concepts include DevOps and Deployment.
Additional Resource: DORA: The Four Key Metrics.
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| Categories |
Technical Writing and Documentation, Instructional Design, Technical Training, and Learning Development, Knowledge Management and Content Governance, Software Development and Programming, Web, Database, Cloud, and DevOps Technologies, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Access Management
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