DailyWF / Workflows
Approval Flow
Define who must review, approve, or be informed before work proceeds.
How to use this workflow
Approval Flow is useful when repeated work needs a visible path from request to completion. Keep it compact: the value is in clarifying ownership, next action, and evidence, not in creating a large approval artifact.
- Define what decision is being requested and what happens if approval is denied.
- Identify required approvers based on risk, cost, policy, and operational impact.
- Give approvers enough context to decide without reconstructing the request.
- Record the decision, conditions, expiration, and exception notes.
- Do not treat silence as approval unless the policy explicitly allows it.
Expected output
A completed approval flow record with trigger, owner, decision, next action, and evidence.
Common failure mode
Keeping the document as a form instead of using it to make decisions visible.
Use notes
| Best trigger | Use when the work repeats, affects others, creates risk, or needs a defensible handoff. |
|---|---|
| Evidence | Keep the shortest record that proves the decision, action, owner, and result. |
| Review point | Review after incidents, repeated confusion, tool changes, ownership changes, or missed expectations. |
Related pages
- Change Request ReviewReview a proposed change before it affects production work.
- Daily PrioritizationChoose what matters today without depending on memory.
- Dependency CheckConfirm prerequisites, owners, dates, and downstream effects before work starts.
- Meeting Follow-UpTurn meeting discussion into assigned actions and visible ownership.
- Post-Action ReviewExtract learning from completed work before context disappears.
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