{"id":9534,"date":"2019-04-08T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2019-04-08T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:17:06","slug":"swimlane-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/swimlane-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimlane | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Definition:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A swimlane is used in process flow diagrams. Swimlane visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swimlanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically. Swimlane diagram serves as a clean, easy-to-follow way to identify multiple actors or phases in a system. Swimlane models a better way to structure the process or to account for changing circumstances<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the metaphor of lanes in a pool, a swimlane diagram provides clarity and accountability by placing process steps within the horizontal or vertical \u201cswimlanes\u201d of a particular employee, work group or department. It shows connections, communication and handoffs between these lanes, and it can serve to highlight waste, redundancy and inefficiency in a process.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book: <\/strong>&nbsp;Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David J Anderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Kanban from the Inside by Mike Burrows<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: A swimlane is used in process flow diagrams. Swimlane visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swimlanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically. Swimlane diagram serves as a clean, easy-to-follow way to identify multiple actors or phases in a system. Swimlane models a better way to structure the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[7,2336],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-david-j-anderson","tag-evolutionary-change-for-your-technology-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Swimlane-01.png?fit=750%2C410","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-2tM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9536,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}