Flow charts

Flowcharts are used for planning and organising workflows or processes.

They are used by production managers to explain workflow or by technical programmers to explain code. This can be useful so that non-experts can understand the problems at hand.

Flowchart symbols

• Rounded rectangle - start or stop
• Parallelogram - input or output
• Diamond - a decision
• Rectangle - any process
• Lines and arrows - used to show the direction of flow