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Identify Steps in Processes

List each step that is performed as part of the process or subprocess.

Follow these steps:

1. Identify each step. Examples include:
   • Running an application
   • Obtaining data from a remote source
   • Performing one or more calculations
   • Prompting a user for information with a form
   • Starting a subprocess
2. For each step, determine the following possible results or outcomes:
   1. Normal outcomes
   2. Abnormal outcomes
   3. Any conditional outcomes

   A step can produce a result with conditional outcomes. When the result is greater than a specified value, the step yields one particular outcome. When the result is less than a specified value, the step yields a different outcome. Multiple calculated outcomes determine the subsequent paths through the branches of a process.

Note: Later in this guide, you learn that steps in a process design correspond to operators.