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Yes, you apply some software development principles: version control, builds, continuous integration, versioning, automation.

The software industry is stupendously large and has invested a lot of person centuries to these concepts and tooling. They have been able to create these tools for themselves because the tools are software. These hard won fruits of labor could be applied to many fields, and are.

Of course some tooling doesn't fit so well directly, there needs to be some adaptation of the concept, and writing of new software and creation of new processes.