And recipes
also leave room for some experimentation and modification. Some recipes even
give you suggestions on how to make changes to the dish.
A process as used in process improvement usually is defined at a somewhat high
level, with associated procedures supporting the process. The procedures are written
in much more detail than the process. Examples follow.
Let??™s say that your organization is focusing on creating a risk management process.
This risk process is being developed because the project managers in your
organization have been unable to proactively predict troubling issues that end up
affecting the delivery of their products to the customer. Perhaps they have delivered
late because of high staff turnover and being unable to get enough people with the
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proper skills on their projects; or the people they get are pulled onto other projects
when those projects run into trouble. Another risk may be that the budgets for the
projects are usually overrun. So, all of the project managers get together and determine
a risk management process that they feel will cover all (or at least most) of the
risks they encounter.
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