{"id":2385,"date":"2022-05-16T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2022-05-16T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:43:12","slug":"what-is-a-swim-lane-and-why-should-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/2022\/05\/16\/what-is-a-swim-lane-and-why-should-you-care\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Swim Lane and Why Should You Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a swim lane? It seems pretty self explanatory, right? It&#8217;s a lane that you swim in. Ok, but what about in the business world? What does it mean then? You can think of it as a visual job description for a particular process. It tells each person, or actor, what actions they are responsible for within that particular process and when they must perform those actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each actor has their own lane, and each lane contains certain symbols that represent an action. It is not the actor that moves from lane to lane. Instead, it is the process that moves throughout the diagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1393\" src=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/01\/swimlane-change-label-300x179.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/01\/swimlane-change-label-300x179.gif 300w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/01\/swimlane-change-label-768x459.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a swim lane diagram, there are many different symbols that describe different events in a business process. But some of the most common ones are: a circle which starts or stops the process, a square which indicates that an action is taking place, a rectangle which tells when a decision must be made, and an arrow which specifies the flow of the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2386\" src=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/Swim-Lane-Symbols-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/Swim-Lane-Symbols-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/Swim-Lane-Symbols-1024x409.png 1024w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/Swim-Lane-Symbols-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/Swim-Lane-Symbols.png 1071w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Business use swim lanes as a visual to better understand a process. Some of the benefits to using them are that they clearly define each role of an employee in a particular process, they can shed light on potential problems or bottlenecks in a system, and they allow system users to fully understand the entire system outside of their own role. It is for these reasons that swim lanes can be valuable tools in all aspects of business.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a swim lane? It seems pretty self explanatory, right? It&#8217;s a lane that you swim in. Ok, but what about in the business world? What does it mean then? You can think of it as a visual job description for a particular process. 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