Flow charting has been around for a very long time. Flow Charts have been used for so long that no one individual is specified as the "father of the flow chart". The reason for this is obvious. A flow chart can be customized to fit any need or purpose. For this reason, flow charts can be recognized as a very unique quality improvement method. (Google Defination of " Flow Chart" )
A: A flow chart is defined as a pictures or diagram (shapes) presentation that use to describe a process being studied or even used to plan stages of a project or an design, it can also mentioned a more easy way by doin mind-mapping or brain storming.
In my opinion, you wouldn't had an End of elaboration by using the method of mind-mapping nor brain-storming. But not flow chart.There will always a Starting point and an Ending point.Between these 2 points there will be diagrams, pictures and line accordingly. Moreover, there will be alot of choices/decissions had to be made to follows to the end.
By using the method of flow chart, we can be easily get back to our plan/sequence while we miss out any stages of our design.
Flow-Chart are abit similar with the game we used to play " Chinese Checkers", we need to plan b4 we start working in our design.
By using the method of Flow-Chart, we can find out any problems easily, and find a solution for it. We can either use a detail flow-chart or a simple flow-chart. In my point of view,applying any project in a detail flow-chart makes a particular design/project feel messy, perhaps a simple one makes me feel comfortable and more focus in any Keywords i applied.
Flow Chart = Progress