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Regardless of your drawing abilities, Visio makes it easy for you to create all types of drawings and diagrams. Shapespre-drawn symbols included with Visioare the key to quickly creating effective diagrams. For example, in an organization chart, you might use a Manager shape (a box with a name and job title) to represent a manager in a department, whereas in a flowchart, you might use a Decision shape (a diamond with a label) to indicate a decision someone must make in a process. By simply dragging shapes onto the drawing page, you can assemble a complete diagram.
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When a flowchart describes a process in which a number of different people, departments, or functional areas are involved, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of who is responsible for each step. A useful additional technique for tracking this, and for analyzing the number of times a process is ‘handed over’ to different people, is to divide the flowchart into columns. Head up each column with the name of the person or function involved in the process, and each time they carry out an action show it in their column. This is illustrated in the flowchart below which covers a simple purchasing process. It shows how control of the process passes from the person initiating the purchase, to the Purchasing Dept. and then to the Supplier.

Use cross-functional flowcharts to show the relationship between a business process and the functional units (such as departments) responsible for that process.
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Your website plan has been approved. Now it is your job to implement the idea. However, before you invest efforts in implementation, you need substantive user feedback early in the development process. You need to facilitate communication within development team and between the development team and customers You also need to design, create, test and communicate the user interfaces.

In short, you need to build a prototype. In this post, you can download a Microsoft Visio web prototyping template.
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The Case:
Your website plan has been approved. Now it is your job to implement the idea. However, before you invest efforts in implementation, you need substantive user feedback early in the development process. You need to facilitate communication within development team and between the development team and customers You also need to design, create, test and communicate the user interfaces.

In short, you need to build a prototype. In this post, you can download a Microsoft Visio web prototyping template. Read the rest of this entry »

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You and your team are facing a seemingly complex problem, or an opportunity. Having bad experiences with partial and unstructured way of problem solve thinking, this time you want to think through all possible causes of problem. You want to explore the issues behind the problem thoroughly with your team. Hopefully, it will lead you to a more robust solution. And since you don’t have sufficient quantitative data available for analysis, you need a powerful method to dealing with the given situation.
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