workstrand

English

Etymology

work +‎ strand

Noun

workstrand (plural workstrands)

1. (management) A group of sequentially related elements of a project.
   • 2000, B Anagnostelis, “Innovations online”, in Health Libraries Review:

     In addition, the LIS is a key player in the Education and Training Workstrand, a group of topic specific professionals who inform the LISMG.

   • 2006, PS Peteru, “Youth participation with local councils: a snapshot of office reflections involving young people in …”, in repositoryaut.lconz.ac.nz:

     ... Sustainable Cities, ‘Investing in Child and Youth Development’ (ICYD) workstrand which began in 2003 and was completed in June 2006

   • 2008, WC Council, “Effective Relationships and Collaborative Arrangements between Central and Local Government”, in waitakere.govt.nz:

     Twenty five agencies participated in the ASCP, which involved six workstrand areas

   • 2008, J Gardner with J Green, A Abu-Zayed, S Milward, et al., “CHARTER Project Plan”, in exeter.openrepository.com:

     This workstrand builds directly on the pioneering work of the EVE project which transformed curatorial attitudes to digital surrogates

   • 2009 April 21, “£7.2bn cuts in government back-office and IT spend”, in Computing:

     “This workstrand has estimated that around £16bn per year is spent on IT across the wider public sector...."