How to Model Business Processes with Swimlane Diagrams

Workshop: How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Processes

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Overview

Business processes are what a business does. This workshop shows you how to create process models using Swimlane (a.k.a. Activity) diagrams and Workflow diagrams. These models are an essential prerequisite to analyzing, understanding, and improving your organization’s business processes.

Outline

  • Activity Diagramming Conventions
  • Example of an Activity Diagram
  • Creating an Activity Diagram
  • Concurrency and More
  • Modeling Concurrent Activities
  • Introducing Swimlanes
  • Activity Diagram with Swimlanes
  • Modeling Swimlanes
  • Introducing Object Flow
  • Modeling Object Flow
  • When to Use Activity Diagrams
  • Activity Diagrams versus Process Models


Objectives
  • Present complex business logic in activity diagrams
  • Explain the purpose of swimlane diagrams
  • Identify potential business problems and bottlenecks using swimlane diagrams
  • Discover non-value-added processes as candidates for elimination

 

Our vision of a virtual workshop is web-based training that is highly interactive. We absolutely avoid the death by page-turning and the passive learning approach that is highly prevalent in most web-based training.

3.5 hours

Target Audience

Business Analysts
Business Process Owners and Managers
Process Improvement Specialists
Requirements Definition Specialists
Strategic Planners
System Analysts
TQM and six Sigma Team Members
HR professionals dealing with the introduction of new skill needs