Best practices
Although best practices always depend on personal habits, situations, and experiences, I've tried to compile a list that has stood the test of time and many teams and projects.
Process modeling habits
- Right after you have created the model, configure data management and alert settings.
- Use angle connectors instead of straight connectors.
- Give nodes descriptive names. Use a question for decision nodes. Use [
EntityName] for Write to Data Store Entity nodes. - Name connectors if it helps to understand the flow.
- Skip the swim lanes unless you actually use them for assigning tasks.
- Try to keep process models less than 25 nodes in size.
Process data flow
In a process model, you deal with three kinds of data. Have a look at Figure 10.54. The red warning symbols indicate variable assignments that you need to configure:
Figure 10.56 – Data flow in a process
These are Process Variables (PVs), which...
