Business Process Diagram
What do you mean by business process diagram? Encyclopedia describes the system of units, personnel business relationships, the sequence of operations and management information flow of the chart. It can also be directly and simply understood as a diagram to indicate the need to complete the process of product business.
In the business process map, a business often represents multiple needs, is a collection of multiple needs , therefore, when drawing the business process map, the need to think globally, it is necessary to take into account the main stem and all the branches to ensure functional integrity, intuitively show the entire process of the product. It is fundamentally different from a page flowchart.
How to draw a business process map
1, whether you are creating a new product, or in the face of existing products to do business process map, the most important and most important is to be the first to find the strategic objectives, to determine the product positioning. (Meituan takeaway, positioning is takeaway)
2, and then go deeper to understand and think about the core business processes, to determine the swim lane. (Meituan takeaway, the core process is from the user began to order until the user finally received the entire process of takeaway)
3, to determine which stages of the product, think about the shape of the business in each stage.
4, think clearly after the start of the drawing of the business process map, in the process of drawing also in the mind combing, as far as possible, do not miss any branch or exception.
5, however, the business process map is not static, there may be changes after several discussions. Therefore, ensuring that the logic is clear at the beginning of the process map can save unnecessary time for future work. Moreover, the business process is the basis for follow-up tasks with the technical side, because it is important to maintain the integrity of the logic so that the technical side can assign work through the flowchart and increase the efficiency of the overall project.
Page Flow Chart
Compared to the business flow chart, the page flow chart is much simpler, the page flow chart is from the user, indicating the user in the use of the product's operating procedures, can be simply understood as in the user to operate in the product, the process of jumping the page.
How to draw a page flow chart
1, open the APP, view the various pages.
2. Think about the jump between different pages and the premise of the jump.
3. Think about the connection between the pages.
4, clear elements of each page, to reflect who is doing what
From the description of the business flow chart and page flow chart, it can be concluded:
1, the business flow chart is more complete, reflecting the whole process, while the page flow chart for different users is relatively only reflecting the part of the whole business process.
2, the page flow chart does not reflect the exception process specific processing methods.
3, page flow charts and business flow charts for different issues , business flow charts for more of the product itself , page flow charts more consideration is the user interaction with the product .
Here is a simple business flowchart for Meituan Takeaway for example:
Here is also a simple page flowchart for Meituan Takeaway for example, only for the part of the user side of the order:
In the comparison of the two flowcharts, we can find out the difference between the two in a more graphic way. In the case of Meituan Takeout, the business flowchart clearly has a different focus than the page flowchart, so the functionality involved is different, and the dimensions of the two are different.
Summary
At the beginning of the process of drawing the flow chart will often be missing process, process logical relationships have problems, as well as the layout of the chaos and many other issues, no matter what kind of flowchart, the logic of clarity is the biggest fundamental, they are we express their own logic of the relationship between a carrier. At the same time, when we go to make the flow chart, but also more profound combing of their logical relationships in our minds, making us in the process of drawing also constantly to optimize the process. Product managers need to be able to do subtraction, not only in terms of demand, but also in terms of process, to reduce the cumbersome and useless process, improve efficiency, is also a small learning.
Overall, any product is composed of points, lines, and surfaces, each demand is a point, each page is a line, through the flow chart of the series, and finally formed the complete product we see. Flowchart is the skeleton of the product, the business flowchart is the big skeleton of the product, the page flowchart is composed of the product skeleton of a small bone, only to build a good skeleton, we can fill the product with flesh and blood, injected into the life.
Thank you for seeing this, product newcomers, hope you give criticism and guidance. This flowchart in doing when I realized that actually do a really good job of a complete logical structure of a clear flowchart still need a long period of practice, including the back-end to do to learn and understand, so that it will be better to do a good job of front and back end of the joint.