Visio Premium 2010: SharePoint Workflow Authoring
SharePoint Workflows's another way of saying process flow; In SharePoint, there’re pre-defined common activities (e.g. Send email) that can be executed together with others, and together this forms a “workflow”. So how can you go from a business flowchart in Visio to a workflow published to SharePoint? In Visio Premium 2010, 
Microsoft’s introduces a new drawing template for SharePoint Workflow. Start Visio, go to New->Flowchart->Microsoft SharePoint Workflow. Upon opening drawing, you’ll notice that key SharePoint activities’re available in three separate stencils: SharePoint Workflow Actions, SharePoint Workflow Conditions, and SharePoint Workflow Terminators. Every SharePoint activity directly maps to those available in SharePoint Designer 2010. For authoring SharePoint workflow, simply drop shapes to drawing canvas, Exporting Workflow to SharePoint Designer 2010. When done with authoring, you can export it in a file, go to Process tab, and click Export, that can be imported by SharePoint Designer 2010.
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Microsoft is slowly getting there. But after all of these years, I still don't understand why the make workflow so cumbersome. Tools like http://www.spsworkflow.com/sha.....igner.ashx allow signficantly more sophisticated workflows to be developed (loops, sub processes, etc.), allow for roles to be specified (swim lanes), and forms to be associated with workflows wherein the data on the form can be used in the transitions of the workflow. This is all done in ONE tool (no export import).
Maybe someday they'll make it easy for business analysts to take the business process all the way to a workflow easily, and not require programmers to be involved. Until then, our workflow factory uses this far more advanced toolset.
Thanks for the post!
Russ