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Process   Step

Business

A Process Step   is a work package that performs a Business   Process. A Process Step   implements the Process Step Design specified   in order to produce the outputs for which the Process Step was designed.

Each Process   Step is the use of a Process Step Design in a particular context (e.g. within a specific Business Process). At the time of   execution a Process Step Instance specifies   the actual instances of input objects (for example, specific Data Sets, specific Variables) to be supplied.

Process   Step Instance

Business

An executed step in a Business Process. A Process   Step Instance specifies the actual inputs to and outputs from for an occurrence of a Process Step.

Each Process   Step is the use of a Process Step Design in a particular context (e.g. within a specific Business Process).   At the time of execution a Process Step   Instance specifies the actual instances of input objects (for example,   specific Data Sets, specific Variables) to be supplied.
 
  Each Process Step Instance may   produce unique results even though the Process   Step remains constant.
 
  Even when the inputs remain the same, metrics such as the elapsed time to   complete execution of process step may vary from execution to execution. For   this reason, each Process Step Instance   details of inputs and outputs for that instance of implementing the Process Step.
 
  In this way it is possible to trace the flow of execution of a Business Process through all the Process Steps which were involved.

 I have two concerns about these.

  1. The first is that there is no information object Process Step Design. There is only Process Design.
  2. The definition for Process Step could do with an improvement or two. The second sentence is almost circular.
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