Control Flow Diagram

A control flow diagram (CFD) is a diagram to describe the control flow of a business process, process or program.

Control flow diagrams were developed in the 1950s, and are widely used in multiple engineering disciplines. They are one of the classic business process modeling methodologies, along with flow charts, data flow diagrams, functional flow block diagram, Gantt charts, PERT diagrams, and IDEF.

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