Standard

Business Process Tooling

Documenting business processes support shared understanding, identification of inefficiencies, and delivering transformation. It helps teams to define responsibilities, dependencies, sequential ordering, and outcomes, and supports training, knowledge sharing, auditing, and continuity.

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Purpose

This standard outlines the tooling for documenting business processes within the Department for Education. It ensures consistent documentation and formatting of outputs to support service delivery and business process improvement. This standard applies to all individuals and roles involved in documenting, visualising, and improving business processes.

Categories

Architecture

  • Business Architecture

Product and Delivery

  • Business Analysis

How to meet this standard

To document business processes, individuals must use an approved product, or a tolerated product in specific use cases.

Governance

The standard will be reviewed annually by the Business Analysis community and updated based on feedback, tool changes, and evolving best practices. The standard owner is responsible for initiating reviews and maintaining relevance.

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