Structure

Reference

Commands

File types

canon

steers — this speaks for the company

  • missionwhat a department or product is for
  • persona person on the roster
  • roadmapthe ordered commitment for a scope
  • connectora provider the company uses: who owns it, its cap, its key name
  • canonwho we are and how we work
  • routinea standing order that runs on a trigger
  • processa repeatable operating standard
  • cascadea staged plan that walks departments
  • rolean approach to compose work under
  • skilla repeatable way of doing one kind of work
  • objectivea stated outcome with a horizon

work

working material — not authority, not the record

  • navigationorientation — READMEs and the root harness files
  • artifacta storyboard, report, gallery or wireframe set — one package, its pages and assets
  • worka deliverable moving through its function's lifecycle
  • recordwhat a department did, kept for custody
  • specwhat a project or product is building
  • guideuser-facing product documentation
  • projecta project's own docs
  • change-reviewpost-landing review of a shipped change
  • content-packageone edition's copyable assets for posting
  • publication-recordwhat was actually posted where, or an honest held disposition
  • adran architecture decision record
  • product-docproduct-internal docs (specs, PRDs, diagrams)

memory

reference only — it informs, it never steers