Consider the task of doing anything with your software a program in a very specific DSL. Then the scripts are your verbs. What you also need are your nouns. Fo

Consider the task of doing anything with your software a program in a very specific DSL. Then the scripts are your verbs. What you also need are your nouns. For instance, deploying to a specific target could be "./scripts/deploy.sh stage", backporting a patch could be "./scripts/patch_release.sh 1.1.0 dbcde45", and creating a database migration script could be "./scripts/db_changed.sh 'add new field for model'" IMO thinking about the verbs is the first important step, but one should also always specify the nouns explicitly.