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Effective Work Assignments

Assign work that minimizes sharing and allows greater independence - according to the stage of model development:

• During Data and Activity Analysis

  To analyze and document a parent activity and its subordinate activities and associated data, assign one person.

  Note: The individual still need to work with others to do some of the analysis.

• During Interaction Analysis

  To develop Process Action Diagrams, assign one person all elementary processes of a parent activity.

• During Design

  To develop Procedure Action Diagrams, assign one person if the diagrams:

  • Share processes and data
  • Have many flows between them
  • Before extensive action diagramming, verify that the data model is stable. Some changes to the data model can cause significant rework depending on the type of change and how widely the data object has been referenced in the model.