📖What it means

A prioritised action taken to reach one outcome. It states the action, the success criteria that say when the outcome is reached, and the initiatives needed to get there in the order they must happen. Those initiatives may come from any number of arcs, which is why a pursuit exists: the outcomes that matter usually cross services and depend on work in several arcs. A pursuit has one owning agent, a human operator owner beside it (a person on the root-owned list of operators), and a priority rank among all live pursuits (1 comes first). Its progress and the step it waits on are always read live from the initiatives, never stored, and it is achieved only when every step is closed and every criterion is met with its proof. Registry record `pursuits` (with `pursuit_criteria` and `pursuit_steps`), key CAROL-PUR-NNNN, reached through shared machinery. Its completion is read by effort: the initiative effort of its closed steps divided by the initiative effort of all its steps.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Arc", "distinction": "An arc groups one service's initiatives under the agent who owns that service and says nothing about order across services. A pursuit is ONE outcome, reached through initiatives drawn from any arcs in a stated sequence, and ranked against other outcomes. An initiative can sit in an arc and in a pursuit at the same time."}, {"term": "Phase", "distinction": "A phase is a stage inside one arc, or a stage of one initiative's plan. A pursuit's steps are whole initiatives, and they may sit in different arcs' phases."}, {"term": "Thread", "distinction": "Thread already means the relay thread between an asker and a target, and is a synonym of conversation. Ninad first proposed 'thread' for this concept and chose Pursuit, because a third sense of a live word is refused (as Instance and Realm were for Dominion)."}, {"term": "Initiative", "distinction": "An initiative is one unit of build work with its own criteria. A pursuit is an outcome that needs several initiatives, and its criteria judge the outcome, which no single initiative's criteria prove."}]

📖Nuance

A step is judged by its initiative's STANDING attempt (the newest row of the family), never the first row: an -00 row can read closed while its -02 attempt is still parked. Work done ahead of the sequence is allowed and named, not refused; a step discarded or redirected is named as needing a decision. The rank changes only by re-ranking the whole live order.

📖Also called

- prioritised outcome

📖Filed under

Category: work.

Service: Build Initiatives.