In a previous life, the flowchart was always a part of any technical document published. The text described process and flow to the non-visual "learner" and the flowchart showed the process and flow to the visual "learner." Ken Nuckols description of the multiple benefits of flowchart use can be counter-weighted, however, with my own anecdotal evidence that there are lots of employees who get more hung up in what the little symbols and boxes mean that in what they're actually trying to portray....
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