Glossary

Unsatisfied objective

The situation in which some normal trajectory leads to no expected outcome, or some criterion lacks the data to be evaluated.

The situation in which some normal trajectory leads to no expected outcome, or some criterion lacks the data to be evaluated. It returns the design to the objective formulation phase.

Detecting it before implementation is cheap; detecting it afterwards is a project. It is precisely what trajectory-based validation sets out to find while the design is still a document.

Related terms

Strong satisfaction

The level of fulfilment in which every normal trajectory reaches an expected outcome while meeting criteria and thresholds, and every exceptional trajectory ends in a governed exception with…

Trajectory

Each possible path a process instance can follow from a start event to an end event.

Weak satisfaction

The level of fulfilment in which normal trajectories reach the outcomes but breach non-critical thresholds, or where ungoverned exceptions remain.