| Noun | 1. | workflow - progress (or rate of progress) in work being done Synonyms: work flow |
| 1. | (operating system) | workflow - The scheduling of independent jobs on
a computer. See also time-sharing, WFL. | |
| 2. | (job) | workflow - The set of relationships between all the activities in a project, from start to finish. Activities are related by different types of trigger relation. Activities may be triggered by external events or by other activities. | |
| 3. | workflow - The movement of documents around an organisation for
purposes including sign-off, evaluation, performing activities
in a process and co-writing. [Stef Joosten et.al. "An empirical study about the practice of workflow management", WA-12 report, 1994]. |