hey everyone and welcome to process sessions. Have you ever wondered why
process models in your organization are not that useful -are not being used by
many people. Well you're not alone. Today I'm going to be talking about ten steps that
you can undertake to get your modeling practice back into shape. So let's get
into it.
There are a total of 10 things that you can do in your modeling practice that
will shape it all up and put you back on the path to success. I call this the
modeling excellence. In Leonardo Consulting consulting we have meticulously developed
this foundation based on much experience that we've had and proven
methodologies that we've established.
#1. the purpose of modeling - without the purpose of modeling I
wouldn't even start any kind of effort in the modeling space you need. You need to set
your bedrock that will have all of the other aspects built on top of it.
There are two aspects of purpose that most people usually discuss - communication and
improvement. So if you're doing process models for either of these things you're
on the right track already. #2 The scope of modeling. Now the scope of
modeling defines the left and the right limits of due process modeling effort.
This is important because you can process model, well till the cows come
home and you don't want to do that. You want to define what your team does - so
it's important to get that right. There are techniques that are discussed in my
upcoming videos on how you can do this. #3 - The Depth of Modeling - the
depth of modeling talks about the granularity in the amount of detail that
you need to put into your process models to make them useful and more importantly
valuable. #4 Resolve the Modeler's Dilemma - the modeler's dilemma often
looked at as a balancing act of three quality issues - closeness of the process model to
reality. How well does it describe reality - (or) how well does the process model
conform to the standards for the organization has subscribed to ?
How useful is this process model or rather how fit for purpose is it? We show you
ways in which you can balance these three aspects. #5 Design and Use
of Conventions - the Use and Design of conventions in its central part of
ensuring this consistency across the hundreds thousands of models that you
create. You don't want everyone to have their own creative flair
in producing different models as you go
#6 Reuse Process Models - every organization has methodologies that they follow.
For example project management has a methodology to follow
Have you ensured that process modeling is part of that methodology
I can think of hundreds of other methodologies that are in place in organizations that
you can then rely on and tap into. #7 The Role of Process Architecture
I cannot emphasize this enough but if you're creating models in out of space
on it's own, autonomously, you're in for a lot of trouble
you need to put models in an architecture and what that simply means
is that a relationship between one model to another model
handoffs, value chains.Think of it as an ecosystem of process models
#8 - Govern the Lifecycle - the lifecycle of any process model goes
through three key steps - creation, review, and finally consumption.
These three steps up pretty simple and well they're simple in theory but you need proper
discipline in order to implement. #9 The Model Quality Framework
It's no good if you just have to process models floating in mid-air without any real
rigor around how good a process model is. Much better if you do it quantitatively.
So we present a framework that you can use from a quantitative perspective.
In other words use numbers to quantify how good a person's model is.
That will give you a good judge of how useful it can be
Finally #10 Sell the benefits of process modeling
There are many ways in which this can be done. This by far
one of the most difficult categories that we encounter. I'll show you ways in
our upcoming videos on how you can tackle the sale of model benefits.
Notice I'm not saying selling of the model - it's the benefits that you are after.
So there you have it folks
10 things that you could do in your organization to improve your practice
and get on ahead with modeling excellence.
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directly I'll be more than happy to talk to you about it