Pilot
A limited trial with representative cases, explicit acceptance thresholds, monitoring, and stop conditions.
Definition
A limited trial with representative cases, explicit acceptance thresholds, monitoring, and stop conditions.
Practical test
Is the trial limited to a task that is permitted to proceed, with representative cases, predeclared thresholds, monitoring, and stop conditions?
Example
A 100-record CRM trial with no off-list writes and tested rollback is a pilot; testing a blocked applicant-screening workflow is not.
What to record
For pilot to be operational rather than a reassuring label, record scope, cases, thresholds, owner, monitoring, stop events, results, and scale decision. If those facts cannot be observed or tested, do not treat the term itself as evidence that the workflow is safe.