I thought I should add the following in answering my own questions. As I’m relatively new here and have struggled to find a few of the the signposts (its a mix between docs and discourse!). I started with docs, found the above, and eventually moved on to the following which I would now consider required reading:
How we structure our dbt projects
This next post ( based on another users question ), gives further insight into how to operate this environment.
What are the dbt commands you run in your production deployment of dbt?
I’m sure there’s a lot more out there, but you’ve written a lot of great stuff Claire!!