workstream

From work +‎ stream.

workstream (plural workstreams)

1. A stream (succession) of work done on some common theme, whether by a single team or workgroup or by various ones working in a crossfunctional or multidisciplinary effort.

   Synonym: project

   Hypernym: stream

   Coordinate term: workflow

   • 1962, Charles Rumford Walker, Modern Technology and Civilization: An Introduction to Human Problems in the Machine Age‎, McGraw-Hill, pages 188-192:

     so to speak, at the headwaters of the workstream. Unfinished parts flow downstream from operator to operator, section to section, division to division, until they are assembled, packed and shipped at the stream's end. Such a concept and image has several advantages. It enables one to visualize clearly, and also to plot graphically charter on one team was given greater reality because it was implemented by increased interaction along the whole workstream.

   • 1992, American Society of Civil Engineers, International Air Transportation: A New International Airport: Proceedings of the 22nd Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 23-25, 1992‎, American Society of Civil Engineers, →ISBN, page 275:

     Civil Engineering: The engineering workstream developed the detailed design and tender documents for the airport site formation. It also identified preliminary engineering guidelines for the airport facilities.

   • 2009 February 11, Nils Pratley, “A sorry excuse for an apology”, in The Guardian:

     Northern Rock had already cracked by the time RBS bought ABN Amro, pointed out one MP. McKillop protested that "15 workstreams" at RBS were saying the numbers on the deal still made sense

• “work stream”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• masterwork, stream-work, streamwork, work-master, workmaster