Module 2 of 9 · Write processes and RACI

See who does what, at last.

Mapping and RACI are derived from your own documents, then corrected in a workshop. The opposite of a six-month BPM project.

The problem

The problem

Everyone asks for a RACI. Nobody has time to build one. And the ones that exist are wrong.

A RACI gets built in a workshop, from a blank page, with eight people around a table for three days. The result mostly reflects who spoke loudest.

Six months later the document has not moved although the organisation has. It ends up in a binder, quoted in audits and contradicted on the shop floor.

Walkthrough

The walkthrough

The walkthrough 2 min 51 — click to play. The video only downloads at that point.

Maestro is under development. This video comes from the MVP — the product running today, not the final platform. As of today, Maestro is used only within Sinfony consulting engagements.

Features

What the module does

Seven functions, as they appear to the people who use them.

1

Every grain is attached to its process

Information scattered across twenty documents regroups by real process, not by folder tree.

2

The RACI comes from reading, not from a workshop

Activities are extracted, ordered and grouped into phases. You start from an argued draft, not a blank page.

3

One R and one A per activity

The rule is applied and checked. Every breach becomes a workshop question — which is where the discussion becomes useful.

4

Business rules are separated from activities

An obligation, a frequency or a threshold is not a task: it is isolated and linked to the activity it governs.

5

Every anomaly becomes a question

Two owners on one activity, a collective role, a consultee everywhere: the module flags them instead of deciding for you.

6

The logical level is assigned

Each piece of content is classified: explanation, rule, or action. That is what later decides what goes into a procedure and what goes into training.

7

Flowchart and export

The process described simply, with swim lanes per role, and a RACI you can export to a spreadsheet for the meetings that demand one.

Who it is for

Two kinds of company, two uses of the same module.

Regulated large enterprises

A defensible RACI, in weeks rather than quarters.

Your processes are already described somewhere — badly, and in ten places. The module rebuilds them from your documents, and you arbitrate.

  • A draft drawn from reality, not from participants' memory
  • Ownership ambiguities surfaced explicitly
  • A deliverable that stands up in an inspection
Expert SMEs & mid-market

The RACI you could never afford to build.

You will not spend three days in a workshop with a consultant. The module does the heavy lifting; you keep only the arbitration.

  • No three-day workshop to fund
  • The areas where two people both think they are responsible
  • A base that updates instead of ageing
Going further

RACI: definition, example and 9 best practices →

The nine Maestro modules

Each module is sold and used on its own. See how this one fits with the other eight.

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