Swimlane Flowcharts

How To Be a Great Business Analyst

Are you a business analyst who wants to be better at what you do? Have you been recently promoted to being a business analyst and have no idea what is expected of you? Well never fear, my friends, for we here at Swimlane Flowcharts are here to help you. The business analyst role is critical [...]

Making Swimlane Flowcharts with Google Docs

I have used a variety of business process mapping software to create flowcharts over the years and none has impressed me as much as the simple flowcharting available now in Google Docs. It is so easy to create swimlane flowcharts and other useful business process modeling documents that if I were starting a small business [...]

4 Simple Business Process Management Tools

You’ve probably navigated your way to this site because you have an interest in business process management, however you choose to describe it. I say that because business process management means something different to each and every person. In my worldview it is all about aligning a business with the needs of it’s customers, and [...]

Swimlane Flowchart Example – Student Registration

One of the things that I found very useful when learning about swimlane flowcharts was looking at real world examples that I could learn from. This example, which I modified from a post on camagazine, shows the before and after of a simple student registration process that was improved by utilizing swim lane flow charts. [...]

Cross Functional Flowchart

A Cross Functional Flowchart is the same thing as a Swimlane Flowchart – it is used for showing departmental or individual responsibilities in a process flow. The bands of a Cross Functional Flow Chart represent each individual department or individual that participate in the process that you are documenting. One decision you will need to [...]

All About Swimlane Flowcharts . Com

If you have spent any time on a business process mapping project then I am sure you have come across swimlane flowcharts. Swimlanes are brilliant for a number of applications but where they really shine is in business process improvement. This is because the nature of the swimlanes is that they clearly show when a [...]