Hi,
I am using EPF to document structured processes (which means there are
many Phases, Iterations and Activities in a hierarchy). The result is
that at the lowest level only a couple of tasks compose the parent
phase/iteration/activity and therefore the graphs for the parents are
quite small (in the sense of context).
danny wrote:
My users/readers complain that they 'loose context' when they click
down into a graph.
Yes, I also get such responses.
Padraig O'Leary wrote:
My main problem is the lack of process overview when using EPF. It's
a shame that EPF is unable to generate a graph of all artefacts and
tasks. As a work around I have used Visio to manually draw process
overview diagrams.
Have other people encountered this problem? Are there any plans in
the future for an overview feature in EPF?
From my experience, the users want to have the question answered 'What
is the complete process' when you introduce a new process to them. When
they got the overview, they are mainly interested in their parts of the
process (for which EPF works quite well). With the graphs generated
by/with EPF, you can't present an overview easily because you don't have
graphs that show multiple hierarchy-levels of your process. Therefore
you either remove the hierarchical modelling from your process or you
generate the overview graphs manually to get overview graphs.
I would appreciate if it would be possible to generate such process
overview graphs within EPF because generating them manually and keeping
them up to date is a lot of work and error-prone. However, it would be
nice if it was still possible to hide some tasks/artifacts from such
overview graphs so only the important ones are visible.
Regards,
Jörg
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Jörg Leuser
Group Research and Advanced Engineering, Ulm
Daimler AG