acquiring a workflow for a product development process, wherein the workflow comprises a plurality of flow nodes;

detecting whether an operation on at least one of the plurality of flow nodes is a preset operation, and updating the workflow when the operation is determined as the preset operation; and

triggering a target control, using the updated workflow as a target workflow, and storing the target workflow as a template;

wherein detecting whether the operation on the at least one of the plurality of flow nodes is the preset operation, and updating the workflow when the operation is determined as the preset operation comprises:

detecting whether association role information or visual node information in node attribute information corresponding to a current flow node is modified, and determining a to-be-deleted flow node associated with the modified association role information or modified visual node information when the association role information or visual node information is determined to be modified; and

deleting the to-be-deleted flow node of the workflow to update the workflow;

wherein the visual node information is information about visible flow nodes.