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The preceding figure shows a brief graphical description of the relevant steps in approving
a loan, but still doesn't adhere to any specific format. This is something to be dealt with in
a later stage.
During this stage, you might also find new terms related to the activities in the process.
Try to disambiguate those terms as much as possible by creating and updating a business
dictionary with all the related terminology of the particular process.
Finally, find hidden activities related to company-wide processes (the most usual case is
related to batch processes whose result end up impacting process activities). You'll need
some expertise in the domain, which is why you need to check with domain experts to
point out vocabulary inconsistencies, missing activities, and ambiguous terms, as well as
to identify irrelevant business activities, duplicated activities, and so on.
