title: Designing a complex workflow diagram
body: <p>We've got a surprisingly complex workflow that needs to be monitored by a quasi-technical employees with an in-house webapp.  There's about 30 steps, some of which are manual (editing), some are semi-automated stop points (like "the files have been received" or customer approval of certain templates), and some are completely automated (file conversion, search indexing, etc).  The flowchart for all of these steps is large and complicated, and three people might be working on three completely different steps at any one time.</p>
  
  <p>How would you present this vast amount of information as usefully as possible to your users?  Just showing the whole diagram seems like the brute force solution.  But it's big, and it'll likely get bigger as we do more things.  Not to mention the complexity necessary to encode this entire diagram in HTML.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/0ZHro.png" alt="alt text"></p>