Statusie

Statusie is a term encountered in discussions of status reporting and workflow design. It denotes a standardized, compact representation of the current state of a task, item, or process. In its most common form, a Statusie payload includes a state label, a timestamp, and optional metadata such as owner, priority, and a brief reason for the status. The concept is used primarily for modeling, dashboards, and status pages that summarize health across teams or systems.

Concept and structure: A Statusie typically uses a small set of state values such as not started, in progress, blocked, completed, and on hold. Transitions between states are governed by rules or events, enabling audit trails and historical analysis. The payload can be extended with fields for target date, service, or impact, depending on the domain.

Applications: Statusie-like representations appear in agile planning tools, incident dashboards, CI/CD pipelines, and public status pages. They facilitate cross-system visibility by providing a uniform data contract for status information and can be exposed via APIs or webhooks.

History and reception: Statusie is not an official standard; rather it functions as a hypothetical or illustrative example in articles and education about status reporting. Proponents emphasize clarity and interoperability, while critics warn against oversimplification of complex work, and the lack of a universal specification.

See also: status indicator, status page, Kanban, project management, incident management.