Continuous Improvement
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The practice of making steady incremental improvements to systems, workflows, and team habits over time rather than waiting for massive overhauls. In healthy organizations, continuous improvement is built into retrospectives, tooling, and everyday judgment.
In plain English: Making steady small improvements over time.
Example: "Their continuous improvement habit showed up in small post-incident fixes that quietly made the next outage shorter and less chaotic."