The recovery, recrystallization and grain growth behavior of ordered alloys are reviewed from a phenomenological viewpoint. These processes are essentially similar to those occurring in metals except that below the critical ordering temperature their kinetics are much slower, particularly due to the ordered nature of the grain boundaries. Recovery in weakly-ordered compounds below their critical temperature is associated with strain-age hardening whereas more strongly-ordered compounds exhibit recovery softening. An alloy deformed in the ordered state recrystallizes more rapidly than one deformed in the disordered state, a feature associated with a higher stored energy of cold work in the ordered state. Competition between ordering and recrystallization in some strained initially-disordered compounds can cause them not to easily recrystallize in certain temperature ranges, even though they recrystallize readily at both higher and lower temperatures. Antiphase boundaries are relatively scarce in strongly-ordered compounds, but common in weakly-ordered compounds after recrystallization, a feature that may arise because of the (partial) disorder of grain boundaries in the latter materials. Deviations from the stoichiometric composition, because of the increasing disorder, and hence, faster diffusion, generally lead to faster recrystallization and grain growth than at the stoichiometric composition.