Evaluating existing processes and practices.
For optimal efficiency, every organization must systematically identify, structure and optimize its organizational and development processes, tools and their application in projects and programs. The result is consistency, increased value, completeness and relevance for every project and encourages a successful outcome.
iProcess helps declutter and define lean processes to encourage companies' project and team success.
Why Process Assessment is useful
By evaluating and assessing a process and its applications, companies' have the opportunity to optimize their teams, their projects and benefit by:
UNDERSTANDING
the effort required to achieve compliance.
DETERMINING
accurate estimating for the next steps in process improvements.
FAMILIARIZING
the team with assessment-level of prep/questions for customer assessments or external audits.
When should a process assessment be performed?
After some time of applying processes into projects and programs, they should be assessed. The amount of time depends on how complex the projects and programs are - could be anywhere from three months to one year. The goal of assessing the processes is to improve them and make them usable throughout the organization. No process definition is perfect from the first try, so getting the feedback from application in the projects and programs is beneficial.
What does a lean process in automotive look like?
GOAL
For each process to be concise and clear about what steps or activities need to be performed.
INPUTS AND OUTPUTS
List or link the inputs needed for every step or activity and the resulting outputs.
Pro tip: If an output is not used anywhere else in the process or by any other process, it likely does not need to be produced.
SCOPE AND APPLICATION
How the process applies to a specific type of project, to which team(s), where or when, what industry etc.
DEFINING PROCESS OWNERS
The person or group that can make changes to the process.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITIES
RASIC chart for every role, step, and activity defined in the process.
