AI creative workflows

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Documenting a workflow so somebody else can run it

Lesson 10 of 10 in AI creative workflows.

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A workflow that only its author can run is a single point of failure with a person's name on it. The test is simple and uncomfortable: hand the document to a colleague, sit on your hands, and watch where they get stuck.

A person sits on their hands with lips pressed together, watching a colleague follow a hand-drawn manual at a workbench. The colleague has stopped, finger on a page, puzzled by a knob on the machine.
Sit on your hands and watch. Where they stop is what the manual is missing.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Step-by-step instructions for running and fixing a process.”

    • Workflow
    • Ad hoc
    • Sub-graph
    • Runbook
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “What only one person knows. A liability disguised as expertise.”

    • Sweep
    • Tribal knowledge
    • Convention
    • Decision record
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Why something is the way it is. The part that saves the next person a week.”

    • Unit cost
    • Decision note
    • Backoff
    • Step
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