{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Budget Planning and Management System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis.",
    "goal": "Improve monthly budget-versus-actual visibility and identify overspend risk early.",
    "whyNow": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control.",
    "category": "Internal operations system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control.",
    "solution": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Department employee requesting or spending budget",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control."
      },
      {
        "name": "Finance and FP&A operations coordinator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control."
      }
    ],
    "scenarios": [
      {
        "text": "An operational user registers required work and checks its status.",
        "start": "P1"
      },
      {
        "text": "An operator processes queued work and handles exceptions.",
        "start": "P5"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews policy and access.",
        "start": "P9"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews audit records and operating metrics.",
        "start": "P10"
      }
    ],
    "northStar": "Share of operations requests completed on time",
    "kpis": [
      {
        "name": "On-time processing rate",
        "target": "Improve monthly budget-versus-actual visibility and identify overspend risk early.",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly aggregation of state changes against target dates",
        "refs": [
          "F6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Operations visibility",
        "target": "100% of key work tracked",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Share of records connected to reporting",
        "refs": [
          "F11"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Auditable operations rate",
        "target": "100% of key changes retained",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly audit-log and change-history review",
        "refs": [
          "F12"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "inScope": [
      "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission",
      "Budget, actuals, and remaining balance lookup by department, project, and category",
      "Budget planning, approval, change, and overspend-exception handling",
      "Budget versus actual, forecast, and overspend-risk reporting",
      "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission validation and duplicate prevention",
      "Search, filter, and history management",
      "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
      "Approval and policy review",
      "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
      "Notifications and subscriptions",
      "External integration and data synchronization",
      "Role, permission, and audit management"
    ],
    "nonGoals": [
      "External customer portal",
      "Replacing adjacent systems such as accounting or payroll"
    ],
    "assumptions": [
      "User and organization data are available through company SSO.",
      "Operators manage policy and classification criteria."
    ],
    "risks": [
      "Weak initial classification can cause incorrect processing.",
      "Stale source data can reduce operational trust."
    ],
    "openQuestions": [
      "What defines urgent processing and approval?",
      "What are the post-completion verification and reopen rules?"
    ],
    "constraints": [
      "State, owner, and priority changes require audit logs.",
      "Access is limited by role.",
      "Permission, policy, and state changes require audit logs."
    ]
  },
  "requirements": [
    {
      "id": "R1",
      "title": "Intake and data quality",
      "desc": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F1",
          "title": "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission",
          "desc": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F2",
          "title": "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission validation and duplicate prevention",
          "desc": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control.",
          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
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          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission validation and duplicate prevention core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              ]
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            {
              "title": "Budget plan, supplemental budget, and spend-request submission validation and duplicate prevention exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Budget plans, approvals, actual spend, and forecasts are split across spreadsheets and finance tools, weakening control. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
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    },
    {
      "id": "R2",
      "title": "Records and search",
      "desc": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis.",
      "status": "todo",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        {
          "id": "F3",
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          "priority": "high",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Budget, actuals, and remaining balance lookup by department, project, and category core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Budget, actuals, and remaining balance lookup by department, project, and category exception and audit handling",
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              ]
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        },
        {
          "id": "F4",
          "title": "Search, filter, and history management",
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          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management exception and audit handling",
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                {
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    {
      "id": "R3",
      "title": "Processing and ownership",
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      "status": "todo",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        {
          "id": "F5",
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          "status": "todo",
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              "title": "Budget planning, approval, change, and overspend-exception handling core processing rule",
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        {
          "id": "F6",
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          "desc": "Improve monthly budget-versus-actual visibility and identify overspend risk early.",
          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management exception and audit handling",
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              ]
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        }
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    },
    {
      "id": "R4",
      "title": "Approval and exceptions",
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      "status": "todo",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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          "id": "F7",
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          "desc": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis.",
          "status": "todo",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Approval and policy review core processing rule",
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                }
              ]
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            {
              "title": "Approval and policy review exception and audit handling",
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                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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          "id": "F8",
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              "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing core processing rule",
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              "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing exception and audit handling",
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    },
    {
      "id": "R5",
      "title": "Notifications and integrations",
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          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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          "id": "F9",
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              "title": "Notifications and subscriptions core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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                }
              ]
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            {
              "title": "Notifications and subscriptions exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F10",
          "title": "External integration and data synchronization",
          "desc": "Connect budget planning, approval, spend, forecasts, change history, and department analysis.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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    {
      "id": "R6",
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          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        {
          "id": "F11",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Budget versus actual, forecast, and overspend-risk reporting core processing rule",
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              "title": "Budget versus actual, forecast, and overspend-risk reporting exception and audit handling",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        {
          "id": "F12",
          "title": "Role, permission, and audit management",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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            {
              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management core processing rule",
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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management exception and audit handling",
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        "id": "S3",
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              "F10"
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            "id": "P9",
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              "F12",
              "F3:1",
              "F7",
              "F10:0"
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            "children": []
          },
          {
            "id": "P10",
            "title": "Audit log",
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              "F12:0",
              "F12:1",
              "F4",
              "F7:0",
              "F10:1"
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            "children": []
          }
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