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precisificaties

Precisificaties describe the act of making something precise by adding explicit details, definitions, or measurable criteria, often to reduce ambiguity in communication, planning, or design. The term combines the Dutch stem precis with the suffix -ificatie, indicating a process. In practice, precisificatie is used as a general concept across fields such as project management, software development, policy drafting, linguistics, and data modelling.

Contexts and variants: In project work, precisificatie refers to refining high-level requirements into concrete, testable specifications

Examples: Turning "a fast response" into a precisificatie by specifying that response time must be under 2

Relation to other terms: Precisificatie is closely related to precisering and specificatie; the distinction is subtle

See also: precisering, specificatie, requirement engineering, ontology.

and
acceptance
criteria.
In
language
work,
it
can
denote
defining
terms
and
disambiguating
concepts;
in
knowledge
representation,
it
may
involve
sharpening
concept
definitions
or
aligning
them
with
an
ontology.
seconds
in
95%
of
requests.
Or
clarifying
"customer"
to
mean
"an
individual
or
organization
with
an
active
account,
verified
by
user
ID."
In
legal
drafting,
converting
broad
duties
like
"reasonable
diligence"
into
enumerated
steps
and
standards.
and
debated:
precisificatie
emphasizes
the
process
of
clarifying,
while
a
specificatie
is
often
the
final
document.
As
with
other
refinement
processes,
there
is
a
risk
of
over-precision
or
scope
creep
if
not
managed
carefully.