Operation Mgt Homework

1.  Discuss the problems you encountered (or, perhaps, are still encountering) while completing the other two assignments.  Would you expect to encounter the same problems if  you were drawing a flowchart of a “real-world” process?  Why or why not?  Explain in the context of an actual process with which you are familiar.

 

2. List some feature of a process that may make it difficult to depict using a flowchart.  Here are two:

 

A flowchart depicts a sequential series of processes.  There’s no good way to show simultaneous processes.

A flowchart has a start point and an end point.  When describing a real process, those points may be arbitrary.

There are more.  What are they?