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Business readiness flow chart

by | reviewed 2024-04-22
This example flowchart shows a business readiness process for strategic business plan delivery. This is an example of a cross functional flowchart, it is not intended as a business readiness template or a repeatable flow.
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List of steps / tasks in this flow chart

Title: Business Readiness Schedule

Lanes

  • Projects
  • Materials
  • VLM
  • Events
  • Finance

Tasks in the Projects swimlane

  • PID writing
  • Summer 16 materials identified
  • Stage 1 PIDs approved
  • Draft 3 Business Plan and Stage 1 PIDs to Board
  • Standard schedules completed
  • Business Plan signed off
  • All products exported from system and sent to Materials and events
  • Print Final Business Plan
  • Allocate PMs and SPMs to projects / programmes
  • Populate: Project tracker, Resource schedule
  • Hold Project Definition Workshops
  • Stage 2 PIDs written

Tasks in the Materials swimlane

  • Summer 16 materials scheduled and resourced
  • Populate: PMDB Documentum CPMS
  • Prioritise products for levelling
  • Product delivery levelling
  • Backward schedule "Products"
  • Agree and implement progress reporting
  • Send distribution diary to DSI
  • Staffing requirements identified & schedule
  • Decision made on which products to outsource
  • Procure suppliers

Tasks in the VLM swimlane

  • Prioritise products for levelling
  • Product delivery levelling
  • Backward schedule "Products"
  • Agree delivery milestones
  • Assign staff to projects
  • Agree design specs
  • Define functional specs

Tasks in the Events swimlane

  • Unique events code take from IT system
  • Summer 16 events diarised
  • Events codes put in diary
  • Final agreement on baselined diary by Directors
  • Summer diary and advise departments over summer
  • Project allocation to local event teams
  • Notify event suppliers
  • Allocate PCs to events
  • Allocate event teams to specific event deliverables
  • Event specifications completed
  • Confirmation from PM event spects ok, finance ready
  • Book venues
  • POs raised
  • Event log started
  • END task

Tasks in the Finance swimlane

  • SAP code structure agreed
  • WBS codes into SAP ready for POs
  • WBS codes sent to project teams
  • PO system populated

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