The number of workers is not always large enough to resolve a specific problem in a single step. Therefore, the decomposition techniques presented in the previous sections are necessary. However, decomposition techniques should not be applied arbitrarily; there are factors that can influence the performance of the solution. After decomposing data or tasks, the question we ought to ask is, "How do we divide the processing load among workers to obtain good performance?" This is not an easy question to answer, as it all depends on the problem under study.

Basically, we could mention two important steps when defining process mapping: