Process Analysis

I have over 30 years experience in IT, working as a technical writer, a process analyst, and a business analyst. Workflows are Us When I work with processes, I usually do a a flowchart to study the existing steps in the process (some call this an “As-Is” flow). I then study…

Elicitation, documentation, validation, adaptation and stakeholder conflict mitigation are all things I never thought I would get myself into when I decided to shift careers and become a business analyst just over a year ago. …

Simplify Until Nothing Can Be Removed — Complexity is cited as one of the main reasons a project or a business change can fail: The overall architecture is too complex. Business rules are bulky, tedious and sub-optimal. Processes are overgrown with fluff, unnecessary steps are created for political and bureaucratic reasons. Forms and reports become more and…

In the previous post, I spoke about documenting user story acceptance criteria using text. While text is probably the most widely used medium for communicating requirements, it is often less efficient than other means. In this article, I want to speak about more visual formats for spelling out requirements and…

Written by Marquis Murray, Founder of Ditto. There are a number of process analysis techniques that can be used to analyze existing processes, from process mapping and process discovery to process improvement. While there are some subtle differences between these approaches, they all have the same goal: gaining a solid…

June 29, 2022/BPMN /by Vagisha Arora Process Mining is defined as a process analysis method that aims to identify, observe and modify day-to-day operations by extracting knowledge from available event logs in the data and information systems of an organization. …

Ford’s Assembly Line at Highland Park is one of the most influential conceptualisations of a production system. To achieve global performance, local efficiences had to be abolished in order to be adaptable to strongly increasing and highly variable demand [1]. Taiichi Ohno — the creator of the Toyota Production System…

As a child everybody has played some or the other games. Some of these games have helped us to learn on how things work in real world. Also these games played a major role in the initial phase of our learning process. In the recent times, this ideology of game…

How to better understand your user using process analysis — a process mining application As parts to establish a fun holistic shopping-experience, Bukalapak has in-app games that allow users to play and get various prizes such as discounts, cashback, and credit balance which they can use in their transactions. …