Glossary

Mandatory by state

A rule defining which data are required at each point of the process, rather than demanding everything up front.

A rule defining which data are required at each point of the process, rather than demanding everything up front. It allows capturing information when it is genuinely available and avoids forms the user cannot complete.

Demanding everything up front looks rigorous and produces the opposite: people invent values in order to move on. Asking for each item at the point where it is actually known is what makes quality sustainable.

Related terms

Data quality

The degree to which data are accurate, complete, consistent, timely, valid and unique.

Layout

The arrangement of fields through which an activity captures or queries data. It is not a data entry screen but a point of data governance: each field must correspond to a justified entity,…

Purposeful data

The rule requiring every captured data item to declare its function: execute, decide, comply, evidence, measure or integrate.

Related Data

The mechanism connecting the data model to process execution, associating with each activity the tables it captures or queries, with state-based mandatory fields, scope filters and in-place…

State and transition

How the executable process is implemented: states represent the situations a case can be in, and transitions the conditions allowing movement between them.