The document describes an organization that relies heavily on physical documentation like sticky notes, whiteboards, and paper taped to walls to model and document their business processes. This informal approach leads to issues like models collecting dust in file cabinets, fire hazards from too much paper on walls, accidental erasures of whiteboards, and collapsed flip charts halting projects. The document promotes using IBM Blueworks Live software for more formal and collaborative digital process documentation and modeling.
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1. Take a test drive.
You wonder if the someone
‘accidently’ erasing the
whiteboard again, is doing it
on purpose.
Your business process
analysis consists of choosing
transparent or masking tape
to hold paper to the wall.
Your company’s process models
are collecting dust in the same file
cabinets as extra condiments and
take out menus.
Your idea of collaboration is
sharing a white board maker
with the guy in the next office.
You have so much paper on
the wall that your modeling
room is deemed a fire
hazard by security.
You consider new
larger sticky notes
to be process
improvement.
Somehow you’ve
used a permanent
marker on the white
board again. Sigh.
Process
documentation
consists of a
photo of the
process taken
with a mobile
phone.
Your favorite
color is sticky
note yellow.
When your flip chart
collapses, so does your
process modeling project.
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