
Think about what level of detail is needed to have sufficient understanding to be effective.


This sometimes reveals duplicative or unnecessary steps in a process, such as different departments performing the same task. By spelling this out in a diagram, you can highlight redundancies between different lanes and identify bottlenecks, waste and other inefficiencies.Swimlane Diagrams, and swimlanes used in other diagram types, highlight which process steps or sub-processes are assigned to a particular actor in the organization. It can help to ensure that the right hand knows what the left is doing in an organization.In today’s organizations with multiple work groups or departments, this diagramming can help in various ways:
