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Jeannine Fisher
I help connect project managers and business analysts with valuable training opportunities that fit their exact needs
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Posted by Jeannine Fisher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Feb 06, 2012

Subscribe to The Other 5% Learn how a Business Process Map can be used as a wonderful analysis and communication tool. Attend our complimentary webinar “Business Process Mapping-A Key Tool for Projects” on Thursday, February 9, and earn 0.5 PDU/CDU.

Process Mapping is a vital skill needed by many professionals, BA's, PM's and Business Process improvement people especially. In this webinar you will learn what comes after simple processes, decision points and swimlanes, and move into time binding, disconnect and enabler analysis. A Process Map enhanced by these features can become a wonderful analysis and communication tool.

This presentation will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session following the presentation.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012 Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM ET

Register Here: http://tiny.cc/x855x


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  • Mentor For Hire Kirkland, Washington Nadir Zulqernain, Ph.D.
    Posted by Nadir Zulqernain, Ph.D., Kirkland, Washington | Mar 17, 2012

    Jeanine, how was this webinar? Did you have a good response?

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  • I help connect project managers and business analysts with valuable training opportunities that fit their exact needs Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Jeannine Fisher
    Posted by Jeannine Fisher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Mar 20, 2012

    Nadir,

    We had a wonderful response with almost 1,000 people attending this webinar. We've been doing our free project management and business analysis webinars for awhile now and we usually have a high attendance. If you are interested in attending any of the webinars, here is the live webinar schedule:

    http://tiny.cc/x855x

    The live April webinars will be added soon.

    Thanks!

    ~Jeannine

  • Mentor For Hire Kirkland, Washington Nadir Zulqernain, Ph.D.
    Posted by Nadir Zulqernain, Ph.D., Kirkland, Washington | Mar 20, 2012

    Thank you Jeanine. I'll be sure to check one out in April.

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  • Chief Executive Officer Federal Way, Washington Richard Whitaker
    Posted by Richard Whitaker, Federal Way, Washington | Mar 22, 2012

    Is this similar to critical path planning?

  • I help connect project managers and business analysts with valuable training opportunities that fit their exact needs Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Jeannine Fisher
    Posted by Jeannine Fisher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Mar 26, 2012

    Hi Richard, no, they are different. Process Mapping is the action of analyzing a business process such as "Fill Sales Order", while Critical Path is a Project Management activity wherebey all the tasks of a project are documented. They may seem similar at first glance, as they both deal with identifying tasks, putting them in the correct sequence and then assigning resources to them, but their focus and purpose strongly differentiate them. The purpose of Critical Path Analysis is to find out which tasks form the path to the end of the project that has no "wiggle room" (Slack or Float) There will probably be other paths to the end as different tasks in the project schedule precede and succeed each other, but the single critical path is the one that a lot of attention is paid to, because if it slips, the entire project slips. Process Mapping is an examination of a single repeatable process, with an eye to improving that process by identifying problems with the individual steps. One major difference to remember is that projects are one-time unique events, while processes happen over and over again.