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...