All chapters
  1. Start hereEnterprise AI adoption strategy, stage by stage and role by role
  2. Chapter 1Why AI adoption stalls
  3. Chapter 2Governance is the first enabler
  4. Chapter 3Who decides, who runs it
  5. Chapter 4Finding the right use cases
  6. Chapter 5The adoption ladder
  7. Chapter 6Role tracks
  8. Chapter 7Reuse first, as code
  9. Chapter 8The worked example
  10. Chapter 9The enablement program
  11. Chapter 10Measuring adoption honestly
  12. Chapter 11Evaluating and mapping tools
  13. Chapter 12Hands-on labs
  14. Chapter 13Templates, each filled
  15. Chapter 14Glossary
  16. AboutAbout this site
Chapter 14

Glossary

Every governance, adoption, agentic and delivery term on this site, with drill-down.

Every term this site uses, in one place: the governance and risk vocabulary of a regulated organization, the adoption ladder and enablement program, the agentic AI concepts, the context and reuse building blocks, the delivery lifecycle, the roles, the measures, and the tools. Each card opens the same drill-down that the ? badges open on every diagram and every underlined phrase: one line, why it matters in this site's model, what it is, what it is not, and how it shows up in the due-date example.

Nine categories

CategoryTermsWhat lives here
Governance & risk—Three lines of defense, risk tiers, controls, approvals, evidence, incidents, threats such as prompt injection
Adoption & enablement—The adoption ladder, use-case intake, champions, labs, the coaching cycle, change management
Agentic AI concepts—Agents, coding agents, subagents, orchestration, prompts, models
Context & reuse—Instructions files, reusable prompts, hooks, the asset catalog, the temporal-domain contract, retrieval and grounding
Delivery & SDLC (software development lifecycle)—Stories, acceptance criteria, pull requests, CI (continuous integration), branch protection, change records
Roles—Product owner, business analyst, developer, QA (quality assurance) engineer, release manager, architect
Measurement—Adoption metrics, net time saved, override rate, evaluation sets, traces, drift
Tool—Named tools, described neutrally and dated
This site's framing—Terms this site uses in its own sense, such as reuse first and guardrails as code

Terms marked our term are this site's framing; everything else is industry vocabulary with its usual meaning. Counts and durations quoted inside entries are illustrative. Tool entries describe the product as of the date shown; check the vendor documentation for current features.