====== Workflow ======

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===== Discussion =====

A Workflow organizes activities performed to achieve an identified result.

A Workflow identifies how work progresses from an initiating condition through one or more activities to a completion condition. The Workflow can identify:

  * Inputs
  * Activities
  * Activity dependencies
  * Execution order
  * Decision points
  * Participants
  * Automated processes
  * Manual activities
  * Triggering events
  * Entry conditions
  * Completion conditions
  * Intermediate results
  * Final outputs
  * Failure conditions

Activities within a Workflow can execute:

  * Sequentially
  * Concurrently
  * Conditionally
  * Repeatedly
  * In response to an event

A Workflow can coordinate human participants, automated processes, software systems, or combinations of them.

Within Crucible documentation, Workflows coordinate operations involving:

  * [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:g:git|Git]] repositories
  * Repository changes
  * Build operations
  * Security evaluation
  * Compliance evaluation
  * Deployment
  * Validation
  * Evidence generation
  * Artifact transfer
  * Operational feedback

===== Definition =====

//coordinated arrangement of activities, dependencies, conditions, inputs, and outputs through which work progresses toward an identified result//

===== Source =====

DIDO-controlled term adapted from:

  * ISO 9001 process-approach guidance
  * ISO 12651-2, //Electronic Document Management — Vocabulary — Part 2: Workflow Management//
  * National Institute of Standards and Technology definition of Workflow Management System

===== Note =====

A Workflow can include manual activities, automated activities, or both.

A Workflow differs from an individual activity. An activity performs a bounded unit of work, while a Workflow coordinates the progression and relationships among activities.

A Workflow does not require complete automation.

A Workflow definition identifies the structure or rules governing the work. A Workflow instance represents one execution of that definition.

A Git-based Workflow uses [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:g:git|Git]] repository states or operations to coordinate work.

A [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:g:gitops|GitOps]] Workflow applies GitOps principles to the management of software systems, applications, infrastructure, or services.

===== Example =====

A repository commit initiates a Workflow that retrieves the identified repository state, builds an Artifact, performs security and compliance evaluations, records the results, deploys the Artifact, and validates the resulting deployment.

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