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OPS.2:0.1 - Working Distinctions

Name used hereMeaning
WorkIntended or performed activity under its governing FPF pattern. A management view describes or coordinates Work; it does not create another Work occurrence.
viewpoint questionThe exact question a view must answer for a named user and decision, such as dates and allocation, repeatability, changing subject state, aggregate waiting, or feedback and rate separation.
Work-management modeThe selected use of one or more descriptions and coordination Methods for the current Work and questions. It is a decision result, not a Work kind or maturity stage.
project viewA description emphasizing a time-bounded undertaking, commitments, intended results, decisions, dates, WorkPlan content, allocation, dependencies, and closure conditions.
programme viewA description coordinating several projects or change commitments and their dependencies or intended contributions. The label does not create a containing System, benefit, or authority.
process viewA description emphasizing a recurring Method, inputs, results, repeated order or constraints, and control points. It does not prove that every occurrence follows the description.
case viewA description organized around a changing subject, current facts, commitments, discretionary or constrained next Work, exceptions, and closure conditions. The case is not its file.
queueing viewA description of eligible items, membership, order or service relation, waiting, arrival, departure, resource demand, and policy for one receiving question. The queue is not a board column.
control-structure viewA current FPF description of one selected control structure and its actual observation, actuation, reference, supervision, feedback, and rate-relevant relations. It is conditional, not an Operations default.
coordination MethodA reusable way of coordinating the Work under stated conditions. A view can expose what the Method needs without being that Method.
mixed-mode decisionAn explicit co-use account stating subject correspondence, scope and grain, commitments, handoff or coexistence conditions, decision rules, conflicts, and stops among unlike views and Methods.