Visio Cross Functional Flowchart
Microsoft visio provides an excellent set of tools for creating sophisticated cross functional flowcharts quickly and easily.
Visio cross functional flowchart. On the cross functional flowchart tab in the insert group click swimlane. For more information on flow charts and their shapes see create a basic flowchart and create a cross functional flowchart. The cross functional flowchart template is available in two locations. Thanks so much for your visio tutorials what an excellent tool.
A swimlane is added after the selected swimlane or at the end if no swimlane is selected. Cross functional flowcharts in visio a cross functional flowchart is the same thing as a swim lane flowchart it is used for showing departmental or individual responsibilities in a process flow. It goes beyond a basic flowchart to show the relationships between functions such as a stakeholder or department and phases such as milestones in a process. From the cross functional flowchart shapes stencil drag a swimlane shape and drop it where you want it to appear.
The main difference between an ordinary flowchart and a cross functional flowchart is that each of the lanes can be used to represent a participant in the process. For instruction in adding a stencil see add a stencil to a template in visio. A data visualizer template has an excel icon in the top left corner. The following procedure assumes that your drawing has the cross functional flowchart stencil available.
Microsoft visio create a cross functional flowchart orientation and direction theme add bands swimlanes change move delete bands add shapes text multiple pages headers footers www. Should my flow chart be vertical or horizontal you can present any cross functional process either vertically or horizontally. In the shapes window in the cross functional flowchart shapes stencil drag a swimlane shape either horizontal or vertical onto an empty area of the diagram. Select basic flowchart data visualizer cross functional flowchart data visualizer or audit diagram data visualizer.