PPOL225 Week 1 Class 1

From Last Week

  1. Deliverable from lab — drop four sheet Excel sheet into dropbox/google drive.
  2. Problems "in problem notebook"
  3. Tech glitches
  4. Lab Thursday will include tool called "Lucid Chart" — you might want to check it out.

Flow Chart Basics

  1. Questions after readings and practice problems?
  2. Critical Concepts
    1. What flows is logic/attention/activity
    2. Describes sequence of action, choices among course of action
    3. Every activity has an entry point (begin) and and exit point (end)
    4. Any cluster of action with a single entry and single exit can be lumped into a single named action
    5. To keep logic simple, we should name actions whenever possible
  3. Define it as a grammar
    1. named action:= concrete action | sequence of 1 or more named actions | decision among alternative named actions
    2. Examples of what we never do

Q245. Offer a critique of this flow chart diagram

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Q246. What's wrong with this flow chart? How would you fix it?

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Q247. What's wrong with this flow chart? How would you fix it?

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Q248. What criticism would you offer if the diagram below were my first stab at a flow chart for an organizational process? How would you fix it?

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Q249. Translate each of the flow charts below into everyday English.

Q250. What's wrong with this flow chart? How would you fix it?

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HOMEWORK Problems

In class problems