Term Definition: Decision
Main Description

Decisions are locations within a business process where the Sequence Flow can take two or more alternative paths. This is basically the "fork in the road" for a process. For a given performance (or instance) of the process, only one of the forks can be taken. A Decision is a type of Gateway.

This term can be found in the OMG  Business Process Model and Notation, V2.0 specification http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/PDF/