• Products
    • Demos
    • TaskMap Standard
    • TaskMap Pro
    • Capture for Excel
    • TaskMap Central
    • Upgrade
  • Downloads
    • Trials
    • Templates
    • Free Role List
  • Training
    • Self-paced Tutorials
    • Online Seminars
    • Calendar
  • Solutions
    • ITIL Suite
    • SOX Expert Suite
    • SPM Roadmap
    • Consulting
    • Process Conversion
    • Process Templates
  • BPM Blog
    • Process Mapping
    • Process Discovery
    • Process Analysis
    • Improvement
    • Change Management
    • Articles
  • Support
    • Product Support
    • TaskMap
    • FAQ's
    • Contact
    • Self-Paced Tutorials
  • About
    • Contact
    • Partners & Resellers
    • Background

  • About the BPM Blog
  • BPM Blog Sitemap

BPM Blog

BPM made simpler

« Using process maps as a replacement for electronic documentation
Defending your decisions »

BPM Summary post 19th to 23rd June

Jun 24th, 2011 by TaskMap

Using process maps as a replacement for electronic documentation

Posted in Process Discovery, Process Mapping on Jun 23rd, 2011

Producing process maps in electronic format can save a lot of time and money. The example below, “How to Buy and Sell on eBay” shows some of those benefits. How to buy and sell on eBay: Background to this process map The "How to buy and sell on Ebay" TaskMap was created to show how [...]

Read Full Post »

When Chaos reigns … what to do

Posted in Project Management on Jun 22nd, 2011

Sometimes things just get out of hand. Often it just a series of mishaps or new and unexpected deadlines; at other times it appears that evil forces are at hand in the workplace. If you get really unlucky, some personal issues will add themselves in to the mix, a broken car, accident at home, or [...]

Read Full Post »

Obama technology Czar leaves government for Harvard fellowship

Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2011

Article first published as Obama IT Czar leaves D.C. for Harvard on Technorati. Will his successor follow his ambitious 25 point plan? After two and half years on the job, Vivek Kundra has resigned as Chief Information Officer of the United States government. No reasons were given, but the Harvard fellowship must have been attractive [...]

Read Full Post »

Tags: broken car, car accident, chaos, czar, discovery, ebay, electronic documentation, electronic format, evil forces, harvard fellowship, management project, map, mishaps, personal issues, poin, process mapping, process maps, project management, technorati, time and money

Posted in Project Management

Leave a Reply

Click here to cancel reply.

  • Archives

    • March 2012 (1)
    • February 2012 (3)
    • January 2012 (4)
    • December 2011 (11)
    • November 2011 (16)
    • October 2011 (17)
    • September 2011 (20)
    • August 2011 (21)
    • July 2011 (21)
    • June 2011 (22)
    • May 2011 (22)
    • April 2011 (23)
    • March 2011 (26)
    • February 2011 (28)
    • January 2011 (31)
    • December 2010 (31)
    • November 2010 (20)
  • Recent Posts

    • Business Process Modeling
    • Education
    • The issue of organizational culture
    • A VERY SHORT HISTORY OF PROCESSES
    • Process Dashboards: Identifying and flagging risk levels
    • Process Dashboards: Analyzing timeframes
    • THE CASE FOR PROCESS DASHBOARDS
    • Is 2012 the year that version control finally takes hold?
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening skills overview (Part 8)
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening skills overview (Part 7)
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening skills overview (Part 6)
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening skills overview (Part 5)
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening skills overview (Part 4)
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening skills overview (Part 3)
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening skills overview (Part 2)
    • How to listen carefully to your team–Reflective listening (Part 1)
    • TaskMap Update: version 4.0.5
    • BPM BLOG Summary for week ending 2 December 2011
    • The Tutorials are coming … the tutorials are coming
    • The psychology of spending and how it can help BPM ;-)
    • Happy Thanksgiving
    • BPM Blog–The need to refine
    • Processes as instruction tools
    • BPM Blog Weekly summary 11.18.2011 with video blog
    • Project and Processes (responses to the questions)
    • Projects and processes
    • Thinking things through
    • Happy 11.11.11 and BPM Blog summary
    • TaskMap Automated tutorial: TaskMap Capture for Excel
    • Customizing fields in TaskMap 4 Professional
    • Prioritization in your life
    • The need to refine
    • Happy Anniversary BPM Blog: A good first milestone
    • Training the trainers
    • Power
    • BPM Blog summary for week ending 28 October 2011
    • Customized process mapping
    • Agile methodology: The case for a blended Agile
    • Additional displays: Are they worth the money?
    • BPM Blog summary week ending 21 October 2011
    • Thoughts matter: How thoughts affect our actions in everyday life
    • BPM Summary of automated tutorials on the TaskMap menu
    • Automated tutorial—Save as process folder
    • Automated tutorial—Task Links and how to use them
    • Automated tutorial for Task Details
    • TaskMap Tutorial—Save as PowerPoint
    • Check my TaskMap
    • BPM Blog summary week ending 7 October 2011
    • Renumbering Tasks in TaskMap
    • Customizing roles names in TaskMap
    • Adding tasks to a Page–add task to page Dialog
    • How to add tasks to pages using the auto connect feature in TaskMap
    • BPM Blog Summary Week ending 30 September 2011
    • Towards Perfection
    • BPM in the Legal Profession
    • BPM BLOG SITE MAP
    • Rigor and our business processes
    • BPM Summary Week ending 23 September 2011. The Case for a Blended Agile
    • The Case for a Blended Agile: Part 4-Agile Stepping Stones Approach
    • The Case for a Blended Agile: Part 3-What a blended approach looks like
  • RSS Get the BPM RSS feed

  • Posts by category

    • Change Management
    • Compliance
    • Law Processes
    • Legal processes
    • Org Charts in Visio
    • Process Analysis
    • Process Discovery
    • Process Improvement
    • Process Mapping
    • Project Management
    • Uncategorized
  • Tags

    best practices bpm budget business analyst business process category change change management computing group dashboard decisions discovery discovery phase efficiency flowchart flowcharts goals and objectives governance harvard job management change management project map methodology mike cunningham milestones personality process documentation process improvement process mapping process maps project management project managers quality standards return on investment risk role names sox compliance target task library team members technorati time and money timeframe Visio willingness

Home • Products • Downloads • Templates • BPM Blog • Training • Contact Us • SiteMap

Copyright © Harvard Computing Group, Inc., 1994-2011. All Rights Reserved. TaskMap is a registered TradeMark of Harvard Computing Group.
Harvard Computing Group, 225 Cedar Hill Street, Suite 200, Marlborough, MA, 01752, USA Tel: 978-800-4590