Modeling decisions

With Blueworks Live, you can discover and document the decisions within business processes. Documenting a decision enables you to understand business processes more clearly and accurately, simplify business processes for greater efficiency, and manage your business processes in a more agile and transparent way.

A decision is a conclusion that is reached in response to a set of facts. Each decision is visually represented as a decision diagram and contains a top-level decision, or root decision, that documents the high-level characteristics of the root decision and includes sub-decisions and data inputs that the root decision depends on. Then, you move down to the next level in the decision diagram and edit any required sub-decisions or data inputs.

Because a process blueprint documents business processes, you might use a decision in a process blueprint. For example, if you created the Streamline a Mortgage Loan process blueprint, you might want to create a root decision that is named Determine Eligibility for Sale. To model this decision, in the decision diagram you document Eligible for Sale? as the root decision outcome and create the sub-decisions to describe how you assess aspects of the root decision.

To create a decision from within a space, click Create New > Decision.
To create a decision from the Library page, click Compose a Decision.

After you have created your decision, you can link to it from a decision task in a process blueprint.

In the process blueprint, right-click the decision task, and select Details.
In the Decisions tab, select the decision or decisions that are reached in that decision task.

To move or copy multiple decisions from the Library or your space's Overview page, use Ctrl+click or Cmd+click to select each of them. Or, select the first decision and then use Shift+click to select the last decision and all decisions in between. Release the key and click the drop-down menu at the header of one of the selected decisions to specify Move or Copy.