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The sequence of steps between an idea and it actually happening.
means The series of steps data or tasks pass through from start to finish, often used today for the chain of apps and automations that get a job done.
from A straightforward compound of 'work' and 'flow,' coined in industrial and engineering contexts in the 1900s to describe how tasks moved through a process or factory floor. It got a huge second life in the software era, where it now mostly means how your tools and tasks move, or fail to move, from one step to the next.
- word origin
- from 'flow of work', literally industrial engineering jargon
- software boom
- usage spiked after 1990s business-process-reengineering craze
- irony
- most workflows exist to manage workflows about workflows
- app economy
- an entire industry sells you diagrams instead of doing