How to name Stage and Step
Hi,
From business perspective, what is the best practice of naming Stage and Step?
1. What are these two definitions?
2. Does Step have to be assignment shape (human interaction)? Or if within a flow rule everything is utility shape (automatic), still do they become Steps?
3. In my scenario I have only one shape in each stage. In that case, I tend to name the Step as the same as Stage but I feel having the same name between Stage / Step look kind of strange. In that case how do people handle naming? Select different wording or am I doing something wrong?
4. If there are any best practice on these I would like to follow.
Thanks,
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Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hello,
Stages describe the phases of a case transaction. Steps represent a process, an assignment, or another case. Steps are actionable “things to do”.
Regarding the Naming Conventions for Stages/Steps, please refer to the below link.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Rachit
IT Solution Service
SG
Hi,
For the Steps, I was playing around what would be easy to understand for business user but actually when I modify work flow (like adding utility shape or assignment shape etc) it automatically updated the view. Was it like this from before? In prior Pega platform like 7.2, I thought that step drawing is not related to actual flow rule shape drawing. Also, anyways if this is how things work, business user thinking a lot about step structure at the beginning is not really important as it would be overrode by developers later. Is my understanding correct?
Thanks,
Updated: 31 Jul 2018 16:09 EDT
Pegasystems Inc.
US
I would still consider "business user thinking a lot about the step structure at the beginning" is still important since it gives the blueprint of the use case/application. However, it would still get overridden by developers as per the requirement
Adaps
IN
Below link will help you
CollabPartnerz
IN
1) Definitions of stage and step.
Stage: A stage is a first level of organizing all the different tasks required to complete work associated with a case.
Step: Represents a task that is completed in a stage. A step can range in scope from a single assignment to a complex, multi-step process.
2) still we can call them as steps.
3) below link might help you.
https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/articles/naming-standards-case-lifecycle-management-components-and-records-classes