How Process Analysts Succeed on Massive Digital Transformation Projects

Big programs have a way of swallowing people. There’s a program board, five or six workstreams, a systems integrator, two vendors, a change team, and somewhere in the middle of it all sits you. Your job, on paper, is to map the current state and help design the future one. In practice, your job is […]
Four People Described the Same Process, All Four Were Right

Ask 4 people to describe a process they work on daily. You’ll get 4 different answers. The instinct is to treat that as a problem, something to resolve quickly so you can get on with the map. It isn’t a problem. It’s the most valuable thing you’ll find on the whole engagement. Those differences are […]
Running BPMN 2.0 Workshops That Actually Produce a Map

Process mapping workshops have a reputation for being long, tiring, then producing something nobody uses. Usually that’s not a notation problem. BPMN 2.0 is well designed, widely understood, precise enough for developers while still readable by the business. The problem is what happens in the room. Someone puts a blank wall in front of 12 […]