Workstream
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A stream (succession) of work done on some common theme, whether by a single team or workgroup or by various ones working in a crossfunctional or multidisciplinary effort.
"[…] so to speak, at the headwaters of the workstream. Unfinished parts flow downstream from operator to operator, section to section, division to division, until they are assembled, packed and shipped at the stream's end. Such a concept and image has several advantages. It enables one to visualize clearly, and also to plot graphically […] charter on one team was given greater reality because it was implemented by increased interaction along the whole workstream."
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More examples"[…] so to speak, at the headwaters of the workstream. Unfinished parts flow downstream from operator to operator, section to section, division to division, until they are assembled, packed and shipped at the stream's end. Such a concept and image has several advantages. It enables one to visualize clearly, and also to plot graphically […] charter on one team was given greater reality because it was implemented by increased interaction along the whole workstream."
Etymology
From work + stream.
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