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Rules for Processes

Violations of the following guidelines indicate some problem in process decomposition or dependency analysis:

• A process appear more than once in the activity hierarchy, but this is rare.
• An activity decompose into between three and seven subordinate activities.
• Siblings have some interdependence.
• A process must produce some change to the business, and not be merely part of some procedure. Monitoring entities without changing and reporting them are not processes.