Glossary
Glossary
The words Amphora Ops uses, in plain language.
- Amphora OpsAmphora Ops
- Our system for the organisation's work: positions and holders, processes, projects, milestones, tasks and decisions, with the facts filled in from what really happens.
- Cardcard
- One item on the Flow board: a piece of a release with its tasks, its stage, its owner and where to act.
- Casecase
- One run of a process, for example one task going from need to live.
- Decisiondecision
- A question put to a named person, with options and a recommendation. It stays open until that person answers.
- Focus projectfocus project
- The project the organisation puts first. The Board shows it first, then the others by priority.
- Holderposition holder
- Who fills a position: a person, an AI bot, a service or an outside party. One position can have several holders, and one holder can fill several positions.
- Milestonemilestone
- A part of a project with a done-check, planned dates and, once done, its actual date.
- Not measurednot measured
- Shown where Amphora Ops has no real event at one end of a time. It never shows 0 or a guess in its place.
- Positionposition
- A post in an organisational unit, with its duties and roles. A position with no holder is a vacancy.
- Projectproject
- A piece of work with a goal, an owner, a priority and milestones.
- Stagestage
- One step of the main process, from need (S0) to live (S11). A card or case is in the stage its work has reached.
- Stalledstalled
- A project with activity before, but none in the last 7 days.
- Tasktask (row)
- One unit of work, also called a row. It has a key, an owner, a state and, when a person owns it, the link to where they act.
- Unitorganisational unit
- A part of the organisation. Units form a tree, and every position belongs to one unit.
- Where to actaction URL
- The link to the page where the owner of a task or decision does the work: a signing page, a document or an Amphora Ops view. When a person's task has none, Amphora Ops shows that it is missing.