'Initial Value' in the Input Form Helps New Employees

When you are making application on Workflow, typing 'your own name' first, and then entering 'date of the day'...don't you think they are unproductive procedures?
Don't bother me such obvious matters.  Please make  'these have been entered already as initial value', then give it to me.


The following Workflow definition is to make Monthly Report.  To report summary of activities of the last month to the Boss up to the fifth day of every month.  It allocates a Task of [1. Make Monthly report] to all the employees in the morning of the first day of every month.

To make application, such 'initial values' and 'templates' have been entered for many forms.

[Monthly Report flow - Initial Value]

Learn BPMN by 'Daily Report'

"It is easy to understand a business by looking 'BPMN', but when it comes to draw, it is hard."
(BPMN：Business Process Model and Notation)

Yes, it sure is hard. But in other words, if people do not consider "A Work flow to be", they would never be able to draw forever.

• How many work to do will come out in daily ? And how many more at Accounting period-end ?
• Who to be processing ? How many personnel to do ?

In any how, knowledge of how the business flow are must eventually. Knowledge of 'IT' are rather not asked.

Well then, how could you let BPMN penetrate within the company ? There is no way but start drawing simple daily work in BPMN. If you are writing daily report or let your people to write, I recommend you 'Daily Report flow'.

[Daily Report flow]

Gundam Sortie Workflow 2

Happy New Year!

In the previous article, space had run out in the middle of "Gundam Sortie Workflow".
So we'd like to continue to describe the rest. If you haven't read the previous article, please read it first.

The important operation comes after is [3. Command to Sortie].
It is also up to Captain Bright Noah's decision in his mind. But actual 'Order' will be transmitted by Communication Officer, Sayla Mass. In the cases like this, an operation is separated into 'Direction' and 'Operation', a Workflow system is also useful.

That is, the director monitors progress of the process after making important decision on process came through the Workflow. It helps him to concentrate on "the next decision" or "emergency command". It is more better if the operating screen for the director is simpler.

And then pilot Amuro Ray sortie. (Finally!)
As business process definition, receiving [3. Command to Sortie] from Sayla Mass, a Communication Officer, only react [4. Accept Sortie]. For the flow here, he cannot [Return] the Task. There's no time to fuss saying "Not even my own father hit me before!".
Of course, there are no way to refuse the sortie for a fifteen year old boy, when beautiful seventeen year old girl speaks to him " Listen Amuro, you are a real talent..."

[Gundam Sortie Workflow 2]

Gundam Sortie Workflow

Let’s make the process (workflow) so that sortie Gundam. This process will help rookie soldiers successfully work for the fight. It is quite helpful. (I wonder really it is helpful…)

“Gundam Sortie Workflow” defined in this article is composed of roughly four tasks: “1. Detecting Enemies”, “2. Order Action Station”, “3. Sortie Command” and “4. Sortie”. However, there is a case that no sortie is actually done. So we must take care of where the bifurcated points are defined and when the process is finished on the way. Let’s learn more detail!

First, this process starts from “1. Detecting Enemies”. There are two cases such as radar detects enemies automatically and humans find enemies visually. Anyhow, a flight controller must report to the Captain. From the point of view of designing workflow, you should not list detailed development in this case. We want to focus on abstract process such as “report to the Captain”.

By the way, if you report to the captain orally, the business record cannot remain (rather the workflow system has no role in this case). I sincerely recommend to report with ”Questetra BPM Suite SaaS Edition” .


…Yes! Using this workflow, Captain Bright Noah could check the situation by email even if he has been working at his own desk or has been exercising in the gym (!!?).
…Yes! “Alert in the ship” will be automated if the alert system works together with RESTful. This is convenient.
…Rather, what were reported and when they were reported are automatically saved as “business record” . This is so convenient.

By the way there are two flight controllers in the White Base. As you know, Oscar Dublin and Marker Clan are the only two. Therefore, the process of this workflow will stagnate if those two persons are absent. This fact is to be specified as “risky item” in the Risk Control Matrix (RCM) documents.

[Gundam Sortie Workflow]

A Workflow Supposed a Chain of Relegating

People ask works. This is a familiar story.

However, you don't know what have been asked in-house. If you can visualize them and analyse, you will see the "chain" of works. Yes, the chain is that true Workflow.
Here, we are going to consider a simple flow to visualize and to manage.

[Asking Flow]