Practical Orchestration Playbook
Apply orchestration patterns to triage, approval queues, alerts, and scheduled reports.
Key takeaways
- Good orchestration patterns are small and repeatable; start with operational workflows where inputs, owners, decisions, and side effects are already known.
- Reusable patterns include ticket triage, alert triage, approval queue, scheduled report, and batch cleanup.
- Pick workflows with repeatable inputs, measurable success, known and controllable side effects, clear human review points, and retryable failures.
- Avoid starting with a broad "general enterprise agent"; begin with one workflow and make its control points excellent.
Good orchestration patterns are small and repeatable. Start with operational workflows where inputs, owners, decisions, and side effects are already known.
Playbook Patterns
| Pattern | Flow |
|---|---|
| Ticket triage | Classify, enrich, route, summarize |
| Alert triage | Gather context, rank severity, propose action |
| Approval queue | Draft action, request approval, execute, audit |
| Scheduled report | Collect data, analyze, generate artifact, notify |
| Batch cleanup | Queue records, process safely, report exceptions |
Selection Criteria
- The workflow has repeatable inputs.
- Success can be measured.
- Side effects are known and controllable.
- Human review points are clear.
- Failure can be retried or escalated.
Anti-Pattern
Do not start with a broad "general enterprise agent." Start with one workflow and make the control points excellent.