2018-04-06 Meeting notes

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Architecture Methods

Process Mapping

• Overview
  
  • Alec Sharp
  • LEAN practices and teams not included in exercise
• Process workshops
  • start with semantic data modeling
    • at whiteboard, identify terms and hash out early before they become a source of confusion.
  • process activities
    • group into flows, distinct flows
    • identify triggers, results, steps
    • focus on happy path, don't get bogged down in exceptions
    • Jim: even having this level is very clarifying
    • this level defers the swim lanes
  • process landscape
    • all the major business processes and hand-offs between them
    • data that is involved
    • you might think it looks like a capability map – and in many ways it is, but it highlights the flow and steps
    • expect the process to quite constant;
    • as you get into systems, and map systems against the process landscape, it becomes a useful and reusable reference document.
  • process pain points
    • a way of using the landscape reference document to focus effort