Reading through this thread P-diagram in FMEA preparation - What does the "P" stand for in "P-diagram"? this morning, I was once again reminded how some new type of flowchart or diagram seems to appear about once a month. Most of them are useless and never looked at after they've been drawn, it seems.
This gave me an idea: Why not have a single diagram that combines the features of all other known diagrams--Ishikawa, process flow, spaghetti, turtle, muskrat, mindmap--whatever--and is totally indecipherable, but looks very busy and impressive. It would be the perfect way to tell your clueless customers, "We have no idea what we're doing, or how we're going to accomplish the impossible tasks you expect of us, and here's a diagram of it."
Thus far, the idea is in the embryonic stage, and the details need to be worked out, but I do have a name for it. I'll call it the Graphical Representation of Practically Everything, or GROPE™ Diagram for short.
How can it fail?
This gave me an idea: Why not have a single diagram that combines the features of all other known diagrams--Ishikawa, process flow, spaghetti, turtle, muskrat, mindmap--whatever--and is totally indecipherable, but looks very busy and impressive. It would be the perfect way to tell your clueless customers, "We have no idea what we're doing, or how we're going to accomplish the impossible tasks you expect of us, and here's a diagram of it."
Thus far, the idea is in the embryonic stage, and the details need to be worked out, but I do have a name for it. I'll call it the Graphical Representation of Practically Everything, or GROPE™ Diagram for short.
How can it fail?