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Troubleshooting and Optimization

A Claude associate is determining the bottleneck in a content workflow that is taking too long to publish. The workflow includes five steps: research, drafting, internal review, legal review, and publication. Cycle-time data is available for each step from the past month.

Which signal most directly identifies the bottleneck?

Explanation

A bottleneck is the process step whose capacity constrains the throughput of the entire workflow. In a sequential workflow measured by cycle time, the step with the highest average cycle time is the slowest stage and most directly limits the rate at which items can progress and be published. Queue size may support that finding, but it is an indirect and potentially temporary symptom.

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