Processes in the Guide pane provide a single destination for all your process, presentation, navigation, collaboration, and training needs. It results in an easier, faster, and more powerful product. Processes introduce a dynamic aspect to playbooks and other solutions.
Benefits are especially realized in the following areas:
- Guided Processes: Guided processes can be provided with Playbooks and any other solution supplied by Playbook writers or anyone else preparing a process for an organization or group in an organization. Guided processes provide the following benefits:
- Guided processes which clarify what to do and in what order.
- Centralized process definitions and deployment.
- Distributed process management for workgroups.
- Established organization standard processes and processes that can be centralized and shared.
- Meetings and Discussions: Processes helps facilitate more productive meetings and discussions. It allows a structured walk-through during presentations based on up-to-date data.
- Personal Favorites: Each PPM user has a private area called Processes in which private links to frequently used modules and items can be saved. These links are accessible from any machine since the links reside on the server.
Processes provide better collaboration that helps focus group cooperation. You can email a copy of a process folder to group members. This folder contains all relevant links and descriptions. The group members can read the explanations and use the links for mission specific navigation.
You can also e-mail a link of a shared folder. By following this link, group members focus directly on the necessary PPM object, since the Processes bar opens displaying the folder's processes.