Learn how to start a process map by clearly defining where your process begins and ends. Using YouTube video production as an example, the speaker walks through the initial steps needed before you can improve or create any process.
So when do you actually create a process map? There are two common instances, one when you want to make something better and two when you want to create something new. In both of these cases a process map can be helpful for helping you get your thoughts out on paper to identify improvements in the former case or identify what the heck it is you're doing in the latter case. Once you've had one of these two triggers, kick off your process mapping adventures. You want to open up a blank process map and start by defining who the start and the stop. In other words the boundaries of what you want to focus on. For example, if I really wanted to focus on improving my process of producing a YouTube video, my start might be I have an idea for a video and the end might be the video is published. That is my start and my stop. Those are my boundaries of the process I want to improve.
