As a team that had spend time and money for years in developing best practices for staging, deployment and operations of many
Workflow
Working in teams, but also for individuals, it is helpful if not required to define the key processes, especially those that will be repeated, in a structured way. Such a definition is then called a workflow and it serves multiple purposes. First of all it can be used as a checklist such that the people in charge of a task can walk through the workflow and followed the previously specified sequence. In addition, a workflow definition improves quality of output as it almost guarantees the final result of such a process to meet the standards previously defined. And last but not least, such a workflow specification is excellent input for somebody who is in charge of developing the automation of very regular tasks.