📖What it means

A grouping of AGENTS in the org chart — engineering, governance, finance, security. A department says who reports to whom; it does not say what the money buys or what the work is.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Service", "distinction": "A department groups PEOPLE (agents); a service groups WORK and carries the budget. One department can span several services."}, {"term": "Block", "distinction": "A department is org structure; a block is a cluster of processes inside one service."}]

📖Also called

- org unit
- function
- team

📖Filed under

Category: entity.

Service: Governance.