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I find flow charting to be very helpful for planning out application development, analyzing business processes, and organizing other functional processes.  In the 11/12/07 ComputerWorld article Are You The Complete Package? one of the essential skills is an “understanding of business-process mapping tools.”  Cool — expect they mention the use of something called a swim chart — new to me.  Some digging reveals that this is a different flavor of a flowchart, with lanes set up to depict certain process areas.  I’ve started doing something similar on some recent chart projects, but this is a nicer way to put things together. 

Swim lane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A swim lane (or swimlane) is a type of process flow diagram that depicts what or who is working on a particular subset of a process.

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