Chapter 6

How to Fix a Bad Workflow

Sometimes, we are given a bad workflow and have to work with it. In this chapter, an example, poorly-modeled workflow is presented and steps are described for how to turn it into a much better workflow.

Keywords

Logic; consistency; sequence; symbol; naming; workflow

Sometimes, we are given a bad workflow and have to work with it. There’s no need to spend your time criticizing the bad workflow. There are probably people who feel it is a real accomplishment. You should thank them for the workflow and ask them if you could make some minor adjustments to make it just a little better. In Chapter 1, I showed you a bad workflow that I was given. That workflow is shown again here. In the following sections, I will show ...

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