An Action Plan specifies a flow of Actions that should be executed in order to satisfy a given Goal. It also contains an estimated global efficacy alongside a set of efficacy indicators.
An Action Plan is generated by Watcher when an Audit is successful which implies that the Strategy which was used has found a Solution to achieve the Goal of this Audit.
In the default implementation of Watcher, an action plan is composed of a list of successive Actions (i.e., a Workflow of Actions belonging to a unique branch).
However, Watcher provides abstract interfaces for many of its components, allowing other implementations to generate and handle more complex Action Plan(s) composed of two types of Action Item(s):
An Action Plan may be described using standard workflow model description formats such as Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 (BPMN 2.0) or Unified Modeling Language (UML).
To see the life-cycle and description of Action Plan states, visit the Action Plan state machine.
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