This week has five articles to learn how to justify and build a task library. Hope you enjoy the summary posts. Mike Cunningham
Building a Task Library: Part Three continued: Selecting tools to capture, publish and maintain the library
Posted in Process Discovery, Process Mapping on May 20th, 2011
If you have been following this series on building a Task Library, there is a lot more to this than meets the eye. We believe that a visual and electronic delivery of the processes provides the simplest and easiest way to communicate information. Given that many electronic devices have easy to read screens and are [...]
Building a Task Library: Part Three–Documenting the Tasks
Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Process Mapping on May 19th, 2011
This post is part of a four part series for what it takes to build a Task library. Documenting the tasks, once identified is the next logical stage. There are several key steps to consider before actually starting the documentation process. These include: Designing and cataloging your Task library labeling system Determining what tools and [...]
Building a Task Library: Part Two – Selecting the Tasks
Posted in Process Discovery, Process Mapping, Project Management on May 18th, 2011
Once you have management support for your project, as the British might say, we get down to brass tacks and into the details of how to build this library. There are three steps to focus on for this activity. Selecting the tasks Documenting the tasks Reviewing and approving the tasks 1. Selecting the tasks Determining [...]
Blueprint for building a Task Library: Part One – Getting Management support
Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on May 17th, 2011
So you have decided to build a task library for your process and project work. Ten good reasons Let’s start with the reasons for doing this in the first place, as this may not be an insignificant endeavor, requiring a lot of thought and resources. Ten good reasons which can justify creating a task library [...]
Where is the “hidden treasure” in your tasks?
Posted in Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Mapping on May 16th, 2011
We are coming up to the next release in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, so perhaps a time to look for some BPM hidden treasure. Much time is spent in documenting tasks and then linking them to make up our processes. It represents the core of almost everything we do in the world. Tasks [...]
