September 2011
Beginner to intermediate
198 pages
4h 30m
English
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Scaling BPM Adoption from Project to Program with IBM Business Process Manager
by Lisa Dyer, Flournoy Henry, Ines Lehmann, Fahad Osmani, Wim Peeters, Jonas Zahn, Duan Zihui
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112 Scaling BPM Adoption from Project to Program with IBM Business Process Manager
Rule of seven
The “rule of seven” provides easy-to-remember guidelines:
Keep the number of activities on your process diagram at any particular level
of granularity down to seven or less.
Beyond seven distinct activities on a process diagram, a business user loses
the ability to understand the diagram or its intent.
For anything beyond seven activities, strongly consider a sub-process to
contain some of the detail.
Activity granularity
At each level of abstraction, activities should be similar in scope and importance.
For instance, avoid having an activity called “plan the party” that exists at the
same level of abstraction as “open the door.” It might make ...
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