Work Object

A Work Object is something that gets produced, consumed, transferred, or transformed. A document, an order, an email, a record. Work Objects are the things flowing through the story – the artifacts the Actors act on.

Work Objects live at sentence scope: each sentence draws its own Work Object icons, even if the same name appears in a previous sentence. The same Work Object name in two different sentences is two icons.

Why Work Object Scope Is Per Sentence

This split between sentence-scope Work Objects and story-scope Actors mirrors how Domain Storytelling diagrams are actually drawn. A story shows a single cast of Actors that performs activities across many sentences; the Work Objects flow through those activities, redrawn each time they participate.

The redraw matters: a Work Object in sentence 3 may already differ from the Work Object in sentence 1 – an order is no longer just an order; it now has line items. Drawing the icon again per sentence captures that the artifact is being acted on, not that it is one immutable thing across the whole story.