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Create swimlane diagrams with Visio for the web

Create swimlane diagrams with Visio for the web - Visio Tutorial

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Create swimlane diagrams with Visio for the web

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- [Narrator] One drawback of a flow chart is that it's not easy to determine who does what within the process. Swimlane diagrams known more formally as cross-functional flow charts allow you to put process steps into lanes that you can label with the names of divisions, departments, functions, or roles. By organizing shapes into specific lanes, it's clear where the responsibility lies for those activities. The diagram on the screen is one of the cross-functional flow chart samples available with Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2. Swimlane diagrams are not available with Visio for Microsoft 365. In this example, you see four swimlanes each of which includes multi steps in the process. To learn about building cross-functional flow charts, we're going to turn a sketch of a process map into a swimlane diagram. The sketch is available in your exercise files as handwritten HR flow chart with roles. If you've put your exercise files…

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