{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Leave and Attendance Management System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Connect leave policy, requests and approvals, attendance exceptions, balance calculations, and organization reporting in one flow.",
    "goal": "Process 95% of leave requests through self-service and reduce attendance reconciliation errors by 30%.",
    "whyNow": "Leave balances, clock records, and approval history are separated, creating employee questions and slow month-end reconciliation.",
    "category": "Internal operations system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Leave balances, clock records, and approval history are separated, creating employee questions and slow month-end reconciliation.",
    "solution": "Connect leave policy, requests and approvals, attendance exceptions, balance calculations, and organization reporting in one flow.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Employee requesting leave or recording attendance",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Leave balances, clock records, and approval history are separated, creating employee questions and slow month-end reconciliation."
      },
      {
        "name": "HR and attendance operations coordinator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Leave balances, clock records, and approval history are separated, creating employee questions and slow month-end reconciliation."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Leave balances, clock records, and approval history are separated, creating employee questions and slow month-end reconciliation."
      }
    ],
    "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": "Process 95% of leave requests through self-service and reduce attendance reconciliation errors by 30%.",
        "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": [
      "Leave request and attendance record submission",
      "Leave balance and attendance status lookup",
      "Manager approval, rejection, and attendance-exception handling",
      "Leave usage and attendance reporting by organization",
      "Leave request and attendance record 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."
    ]
  },
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      "priority": "high",
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        }
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