SYSE.12:0.1 - Terms and Distinctions
| Name in this pattern | What it denotes |
|---|---|
| practitioner | An Agent performing the named engineering Work. Capability, assignment, authority, and actual Work remain separate claims. |
| engineering platform | A project-relative designation for an actual System selected to enable named engineering Work through direct relations such as capability, participation, provision, resource, interface, or condition relations. A future candidate remains a referent in a plan or description until an actual System satisfies its identity conditions. |
| provider arrangement | Plain wording for the provider Agents, other Systems, Work, Methods, interfaces, resources, conditions, and recovery relations on which platform use relies. Recover the actual participants and relations; they need not be parts of one platform System. |
| toolchain | Source-local wording that may denote an actual arrangement of tools or a description of that arrangement. Recover the actual Systems, configurations, interfaces, resource relations, participation in Work, and evidence before making a platform claim. |
| self-service | A source-local claim that a practitioner can obtain a stated result without case-specific provider Work at every step. Provider Work, platform participation, support, authority, conditions, and exceptions can still remain. |
| golden path | Source-local wording for either a recommended MethodDescription or a configured arrangement for a bounded case. Recover which one is meant; either remains separate from the world-side Method, its enactment, and evidence that it fits this Work. |
| practitioner-experience account | An episteme carrying evidence-backed claims about, for example, effort, delay, error, rework, recovery, autonomy, or result quality for named Work. A satisfaction result supports only the claim and population it measured. |
| platform readiness assessment and platform-use assessment | The readiness assessment uses evidence available before the relying Work. The use assessment uses later observations of that Work and the platform’s actual participation or provision. They are different epistemes with different evidence windows. |
The platform System, provider Agent, practitioner Agent, capability, promise content, Method, MethodDescription, dated Work, participation or provision relation, condition, result, and evidence remain distinct. When a source says service, recover which of these objects or relations its current claim needs.