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Delivery Terms

Understand CI/CD, release, quality and flow terminology.

Objective: Communicate delivery risk and progress without ambiguity.

Practical guidance

Delivery vocabulary

01

Distinguish build, release and deployment

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02

Explain artifact, environment and promotion

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03

Connect quality gates to evidence

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04

Relate flow metrics to delivery outcomes

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