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  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Payroll Management System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Connect pay rules, source data, calculation, review, approval, payment, corrections, and audit history.",
    "goal": "Reduce payroll calculation errors and maintain 100% completed review before the payment cutoff.",
    "whyNow": "Time data, allowances, deductions, change history, and payment-approval evidence are scattered, making payroll errors and employee questions difficult to resolve quickly.",
    "category": "Internal operations system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Time data, allowances, deductions, change history, and payment-approval evidence are scattered, making payroll errors and employee questions difficult to resolve quickly.",
    "solution": "Connect pay rules, source data, calculation, review, approval, payment, corrections, and audit history.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Employee and payroll practitioner reviewing pay statements and settlement results",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Time data, allowances, deductions, change history, and payment-approval evidence are scattered, making payroll errors and employee questions difficult to resolve quickly."
      },
      {
        "name": "Payroll, tax, and HR operations coordinator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Time data, allowances, deductions, change history, and payment-approval evidence are scattered, making payroll errors and employee questions difficult to resolve quickly."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Time data, allowances, deductions, change history, and payment-approval evidence are scattered, making payroll errors and employee questions difficult to resolve quickly."
      }
    ],
    "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": "Reduce payroll calculation errors and maintain 100% completed review before the payment cutoff.",
        "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": [
      "Pay rule, allowance, deduction, time-data, and settlement-request registration",
      "Payee, calculation result, deduction, payment, and adjustment-history lookup",
      "Data collection, payroll calculation, review, approval, payment, and correction handling",
      "Payroll accuracy, payment schedule, deduction, exception, and settlement-status reporting",
      "Pay rule, allowance, deduction, time-data, and settlement-request registration 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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      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
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        {
          "id": "F1",
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Pay rule, allowance, deduction, time-data, and settlement-request registration core processing rule",
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                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Pay rule, allowance, deduction, time-data, and settlement-request registration exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect pay rules, source data, calculation, review, approval, payment, corrections, and audit history. 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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        },
        {
          "id": "F2",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              "title": "Pay rule, allowance, deduction, time-data, and settlement-request registration validation and duplicate prevention core processing rule",
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              "title": "Pay rule, allowance, deduction, time-data, and settlement-request registration validation and duplicate prevention 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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              ]
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        }
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    },
    {
      "id": "R2",
      "title": "Records and search",
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          "id": "F3",
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              "title": "Payee, calculation result, deduction, payment, and adjustment-history lookup core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Payee, calculation result, deduction, payment, and adjustment-history lookup exception and audit handling",
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        {
          "id": "F4",
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            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management exception and audit handling",
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    {
      "id": "R3",
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        {
          "id": "F5",
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              "title": "Data collection, payroll calculation, review, approval, payment, and correction handling core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Data collection, payroll calculation, review, approval, payment, and correction handling exception and audit handling",
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        {
          "id": "F6",
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          "desc": "Reduce payroll calculation errors and maintain 100% completed review before the payment cutoff.",
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              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA 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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                }
              ]
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            {
              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management exception and audit handling",
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              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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              ]
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          ]
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    },
    {
      "id": "R4",
      "title": "Approval and exceptions",
      "desc": "Time data, allowances, deductions, change history, and payment-approval evidence are scattered, making payroll errors and employee questions difficult to resolve quickly.",
      "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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            {
              "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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                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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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",
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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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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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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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                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "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.",
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                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F10",
          "title": "External integration and data synchronization",
          "desc": "Connect pay rules, source data, calculation, review, approval, payment, corrections, and audit history.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
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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 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": "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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              ]
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    },
    {
      "id": "R6",
      "title": "Insights and controls",
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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": "Payroll accuracy, payment schedule, deduction, exception, and settlement-status reporting 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": "Payroll accuracy, payment schedule, deduction, exception, and settlement-status 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",
          "desc": "Reduce payroll calculation errors and maintain 100% completed review before the payment cutoff.",
          "status": "todo",
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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",
              "desc": "Reduce payroll calculation errors and maintain 100% completed review before the payment cutoff.",
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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": "Role, permission, and audit management 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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              ]
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              "F3:0",
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              "F10"
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              "F7",
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            "id": "P10",
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