Manual process description and target systems

To start off, we will capture the high level description of the process. In our example, we could write the following:

  • A shopping list is drawn up based on what we need for the upcoming week
  • We log on to the shopping site, http://www.amazon.com, every Monday at 10:00 am in the morning
  • One-by-one, we work through the shopping list and search for the items to purchase
  • The item is added to the shopping cart
  • An email alert is sent to me for verification and to check out the item

Here, we will also note the systems that we are going to work with. In this case, that will be the shopping site, http://www.amazon.com as well as Excel, for storing the shopping list, and Outlook for sending out emails. ...

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