BPM made simpler
Posted in Process Analysis, Process Mapping on Mar 2nd, 2012
This brings us to the major activity for many business process analysts, project managers and consultants; that of Business Process Modeling. While many organizations don’t want to start there, we have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is the “as is” process. How things are done today, warts and all. When an organization wants to [...]
Posted in Process Analysis on Jan 23rd, 2012
Identifying and flagging risk levels within tasks can be easily accomplished with TaskMap 4 Professional. There are two ways of flagging risk levels, manually and automatically through TaskMap Capture for Excel. In the image below, you can see that different colors are used to indicate the level of risk on a scale of 1 to [...]
Posted in Process Analysis on Jan 17th, 2012
In addition to creating dashboards the general progress of a project, it is also possible to create a dashboard for the analysis of an existing process. The first steps will include: The number of tasks and their specific path in the process and The time taken for each task and Elapsed time between each task [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Dec 9th, 2011
I had the good fortune recently to attend a reflective listening workshop led by an expert in this field. Although the purpose of this workshop was to improve my personal reflective listening skills, the content was so useful that I would like to share with you BPM buffs. Over the next few days I will [...]
Posted in Law Processes, Process Analysis, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management, Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2011
Harvard Computing Group is pleased to announce the general availability of TaskMap 4.0.5, a minor update to the very successful release of TaskMap 4. We recommend that all current TaskMap 4 users update their copies of TaskMap to take advantage of this interim release. TaskMap 4.0.5 includes a number of fixes that will improve [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Process Mapping, Project Management on Nov 11th, 2011
A friend of mine gave me a heads up that today would be the last day that the date would have a nice digital ring to for the rest of my lifetime. Here is the blog summary for the month so far. Monthly Archive for November, 2011 TaskMap Automated tutorial: TaskMap Capture for Excel [...]
Posted in Change Management, Legal processes, Process Analysis, Process Improvement, Project Management on Nov 5th, 2011
Yesterday I had a long lunch with a great friend of mine from Sweden. Over the years we have set up new companies together, skied the slopes of New England, seen our families grow together. We have also been through some ups and downs, but have always stayed in touch. We have one of those [...]
Posted in Change Management, Compliance, Legal processes, Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Nov 3rd, 2011
My mother used to chide me “Michael, self praise is no praise at all!”. When I congratulated myself on achieving something as a child; or if the truth be known, also as a adult. Well at the risk of invoking her comments from heaven, I will congratulate the team and myself on our first full [...]
Posted in Change Management, Compliance, Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Sep 27th, 2011
We have just added a great new resource to the BPM Blog, with over 250 topics and posts out there we thought it would be helpful for you to find topics of interest and not just use the search engine. Here is the link http://taskmap.com/wordpress/bpm-blog-sitemap/ The BPM Blog site Map will help you find topical [...]
Posted in Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Sep 26th, 2011
Recently I had an encounter with the word rigor and though the subject was not about processes and process improvement it seemed like a good time to revisit the use of rigor in our processes. The definition I like best for rigor is as follows: The quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate. We [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Process Mapping, Project Management on Aug 15th, 2011
Last week’s blog had a number of interesting topics, from web publishing with Office 2010 to the use of SWOT analysis techniques in your BPM project. Hope you had a great weekend. Mike Cunningham Using the SWOT technique in your BPM project Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 12th, 2011 To [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 12th, 2011
To use the SWOT technique in your BPM project use the following guidelines when building the matrix or table: Strengths: characteristics of the BPM project that give it an advantage over other potential projects competing for the same budget or staff resources. This might be a ROI analysis or support of important goals and objectives [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 11th, 2011
Yesterday evening I was running a Goals Setting workshop and I included a SWOT Analysis into the training program. This worked so well for the workshop, I thought it would be a good idea to add into planning for BPM projects. Just a refresher and reminder what a SWOT analysis is: Here is the definition [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis on Jul 14th, 2011
In every BPM project, it seems we look continuously for those things that can be automated. While this is important to reduce paper, improve quality and increase efficiency, there are times when it doesn’t work for everything. We don’t need reminding of this when dealing with a completely automated telephone system, navigating through voice commands [...]
Posted in Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping on Jul 7th, 2011
Process maps have a lifecycle of their own, but is often not recognized by those authoring, reviewing or receiving them. Here is the cycle as we see it. For each step of the Lifecycle you may want to increase or reduce to the amount of information available to the audience involved. For example: Discovery of [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Jun 9th, 2011
Harvard Computing Group Releases SOX Compliance Solution Linking Best Practices and SOX Process Maps After many months of development and testing, we are pleased to announce the release of our latest vertical solution for SOX compliance applications. Our partner SOX XPRESS, LLC, is a long time provider of SOX software and consulting. If you like [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Process Analysis on May 2nd, 2011
Risk is a factor that affects all of our projects, but to truly access risk we need to review individual risk factors. The diagram below illustrates areas to consider risk factors in your project. Each factor should be considered carefully, here are some guidelines for questions we should be asking when identifying these risks. Schedule: [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Apr 15th, 2011
BPM made simpler Licensing alternatives for TaskMap Process Mapping software Posted in Process Mapping on Apr 14th, 2011 If you are considering TaskMap for your organization for process mapping applications you will have to consider licensing options to make the most effective use of the software for your organization. There are three considerations that will [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Apr 8th, 2011
Staying flexible in your BPM project Posted in Change Management, Process Improvement, Project Management on Apr 7th, 2011 It’s important to keep a flexible position when managing any project, but particularly a BPM one. Why, because things change. Just when you thought everything was going perfectly your project sponsor has left the company for [...]
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