Definition
Organizational Knowledge is engineering knowledge that persists beyond the task that produced it and remains available to inform future work. It accumulates through Discoveries, Specifications, Architecture Decision Records, and Implementation Reports, rather than living only in individual memory.
Why It Matters
Specifications, unlike prompts, outlive the task that produced them and become reusable organizational assets. Without deliberate capture, engineering knowledge tends to stay tribal — known only to the people who happened to be involved — and gets rediscovered at cost by the next team that needs it.
Related Concepts
- Context Engineering
- Discovery
- Body of Knowledge
- Traceability
References
- DISC-0002 — Specification-Driven Development
- DISC-0006 — Shared Specifications Over Shared Code
- DISC-0008 — Human Systems Conductor
- GV-0000 — Governance