Executionhave

Executionhave is a term used in discussions of process governance and workflow reliability to denote the state in which a commanded action has been carried out and its outcome is recorded. It combines the concepts of execution (the act of carrying out a task) and have (the possession or verification of a completed state) to emphasize auditability and traceability of results.

Origin and usage: The term is a relatively new coinage in the field of operations management and IT governance, appearing in informal and professional writings since the late 2010s. It is not part of a single formal framework and is not universally standardized.

In practice, executionhave is treated as a property of a process design or an operational state. It signals that every planned step has been completed with a verifiable record, including timestamps, actor identifiers, and observed outcomes. It supports compliance, post-mortems, and root-cause analysis, and it can be used as a criterion in workflow automation to gate subsequent steps.

Relation to other concepts: Executionhave relates to audit trails, state management, and control-flow integrity. Typical metrics include the executionhave rate (the share of planned actions that finish with documented completion) and time-to-execute. Critics warn that an overemphasis on documentation can impede agility if not balanced with outcome-focused evaluation.

See also: audit trail, workflow management, change management, governance, incident response.