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Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

By : David J Parker, Šenaj Lelić
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Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

By: David J Parker, Šenaj Lelić

Overview of this book

Every business has process flows, but not all of them are fully described to or verified for accuracy with each stakeholder. This not only presents a risk for business continuity but also removes the ability to make insightful improvements. To make these complex interactions easy to grasp, it’s important to describe these processes visually using symbology that everybody understands. Different parts of these flows should be collaboratively developed and stored securely as commercial collateral. Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio helps you understand why it is crucial to use a common, systematic approach to document the steps needed to meet each business requirement. This book explores the various process flow templates available in each edition of Microsoft Visio, including BPMN. It also shows you how to use them effectively with the help of tips and techniques and examples to reduce the time required for creating them, as well as how you can improve their integration and presentation. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the skills needed to create data-integrated business flowcharts with Microsoft Visio, learned how to effectively use these diagrams collaboratively, but securely, and understood how to integrate them with other M365 apps, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Power Automate.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

To get the most out of this book

This book is about using Visio for the web and Visio for the Windows desktop. A Visio Plan 2 license will cover every aspect of the content, but other Visio users will find relevant content in some chapters.

Software/hardware covered in the book

Operating system requirements

Microsoft 365

(optional)

Any

Microsoft Visio for the Web

(some chapters)

Any

Microsoft Visio for the Desktop

(every chapter)

Windows

Microsoft Teams

(optional)

Any

Visio for the web is evolving quickly, so some content and screenshots may differ from what is available at the time of reading.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

For those readers who wish to learn more about customizing Visio, and writing code to automate processes, there are several other Visio books available by David Parker from Packt at https://subscription.packtpub.com/search?query=David+Parker+Visio.