Q2: Meal Planning Activity Chart

Overview

Draw a cross-functional activity chart for planning and eating a meal with your family (or group of friends), using UML symbols.

Diagramming Tool

Visio, Diagrams.net, or Visual Paradigm

Background

A cross-functional activity chart is an activity chart with swimlanes.

UML refers to the Unified Modelling Language.

Usually a process flow chart is called an activity diagram in when using UML.

Note: An activity chart is essentially a flowchart, showing flow of control from activity to activity The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, Booch, Rumbaugh, Jacobson, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Instructions

Make a neat cross-functional chart that illustrates the process of obtaining the ingredients, cooking and eating a meal involving this food, at a reasonably high level.You should include the following steps:

Buying the ingredients at the store

Paying the cashier

Consulting with the family the items to be served along with the favourite food dish

Preparing in the kitchen

Eating the meal

Cleaning up

You do not need to include the steps in actually preparing the dish according to a recipe these details are out of scope

You should include swim lanes for at least the following roles:

Cashier at the food store (or equivalent if computerized checkout)

Your family (the people you consult)

Yourself in the role or roles you undertake

The cleanup people (who clean up and wash the dishes - this might be you)

Use the UML symbol set (not the traditional set, and not BPMN symbols)

Your activity chart shall follow best practice by including the following::

Straight lines

Clear labels

Size shall be one physical page in size (8.5 x 11 inches)

Include the diagram label

Hints

Look for the UML template UML Activity, which can be selected in Visio 2013 from the following icon:

Guidance for UML symbols is found in the Lecture Notes in Module 02 Visio.

Each role (i.e. responsibility), whether single person or group of people, shall have its own swim lane.

Remember that if you are the coordinator for planning, and also partake in the eating, you have two different roles and therefore belong in two separate swim lanes..