This weeks summary covers all of the Creating a Task Library, plus more details on TaskMap 4. Thanks for all the comments and traffic on this topic. I will be considering making a webinar on this topic for the coming weeks. Have a great Memorial Day weekend if you are in the USA, and if you have to work next Monday, my condolences. Sincerely, Mike Cunningham
TaskMap 4: A new standard for Process Mapping
Posted in Process Mapping on May 26th, 2011
While it’s obvious that vendors are biased (or proud) about products they invent themselves, we do think we should toot our horn on this one. Simple is beautiful Since Christmas Eve of last year, the day the software was released, we have had thousands of customers convert to the next version. The challenge we had [...]
Building a Task Library: Part Three continued: Release, revision control of the Task Library
Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Process Mapping on May 25th, 2011
While it is obvious why we should have a release and revision control system for processes and procedures, its worth some discussion why this is even more important for a task library. As a Task library is in effect a Master Library for important tasks in the organization it has to be accurate and the [...]
Building a Task Library: Part Three continued-The metadata for each task
Posted in Process Discovery, Process Mapping on May 24th, 2011
Depending on your choice of tool you may decide to select different metadata for your task library. What is metadata anyway? The best description I heard was many years ago, and it’s simply the data about the data. So that does sound a little like a riddle. What it means for a task is the [...]
BPM Summary for week ending 21 May 2011
Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Process Mapping on May 23rd, 2011
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 [...]