52 Examples of Work Output

John Spacey, March 18, 2023

A work output is an identifiable item of work that has been completed by an individual or team. These are typically at the task level whereby an entire project or large initiative may be viewed as having multiple work outputs known as deliverables. Work outputs can be produced repeatedly as part of a process or can be a one-time output such as a completed action item. The following are common examples of work outputs.

Analysis	Approvals
Attending or delivering training	Budget plans
Business cases	Business transactions
Code	Communications
Completing a business process or process step	Configuring systems
Data	Decisions
Designs	Documents
Estimates	Events
Feasibility studies	Forecasts
Fulfilling an order	Generating customer invoices
Maintenance work	Marketing campaigns
Marketing content	Measurements and metric calculations
Meeting agendas	Meeting minutes
Negotiations	Optimizations
Organizing a meeting or work process	Plans
Presentations	Product units
Proposals	Prototypes
Public speaking engagements	Quality control tests
Repairs	Reports
Requirements	Research papers
Resolving an incident	Responding to a customer inquiry
Results of tests and experiments	Reviews
Sales meetings	Scripts
Service interactions	Solving a problem
Strategies	Submitting a change request
Upgrading software	White papers

The total amount of work outputs in a period of time is known as work throughput.

Work outputs can be measured in terms of work quality. For example, the defect rate for code.

Outputs vs Outcomes

Outputs are the work that you deliver such as a chef who prepares a meal. Outcomes are business results related that output such as revenue, customer satisfaction or customer reviews.