Bpmn diagramming in visio help? (Previously used lucidchart)
Heya,
My new job only has default visio. I need to create a lot of very big, detailed bpmn 2.0 diagrams.
Lucidchart workflow at previous job was a lot better / easier. eight years ago i was doing the same in visio using a great deal of customizations maintained by that org which made it easy. Ive also used ARIS / draw.io and found those okay.
Im finding switching back to default visio bpmn diagrams agonizing - stuff like setting lines to process / message flow, not having swimlanes resize, not having shapes line up without a lot of fiddling. Im spending all my time fighting the tool with its focus on dragging shapes in from the side and having to change the default template to get arrows showing on connectors. Every step requires several more mouse clicks then other tools, hotkeys listed in guides dont seem to work, its all very slow.
Any advice / proven guides on how to streamline my workflow? No option to install add ons, that requires an arduous security review.
Also, whats the best option to embed visio diagrams into confluence / jira? Best practice for archiving diagrams when its not purely web / cloud based like in lucid?
Cheers.