What's the official name for a diagram like this one, used to structure a conditional plan.The shapes of the objects are by convention ellipse for an action, rhombus for a question, rectangle for a statement, not sure what the symbols' conventions are, which is why I'm asking for the name to find out more about it.
What's the professional name for the software planning diagrams, those with ellipses and rhombuses?
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Flowchart or Decision Tree.Probably the most traditional term, in spite of my preference, is Flowchart, from the traditional, waterfall engineering model. It is commonly used in software, business, and industrial engineering.I tend to prefer the latter term in this context. The term Flowchart is often misused (as we know, many people aren't formally educated). I've seen people refer to any sort of diagram with processes, data and system-components as a Flowchart, when actually they have a Data Flow Diagram or Component Diagram, which are other common software engineering diagrams. With Decision Tree, I feel like I'm being more specific.Some common engineering diagrams:FlowchartDecision TreeData Flow DiagramComponent DiagramEntity Relationship Model (aka ER or ERD)Logical Data Model (database independant)Physical Data Model (database specific)Object Model (differs from an ER Model)