Most product teams have the same three bottlenecks. They just give them different names.

The first is design debt. Screens that were built for a flow that no longer exists, still in the product because nobody had time to remove them. Every new feature gets built around them.

The second is async ambiguity. The designer's intent, the PM's interpretation, and the engineer's implementation are three different things. Nobody notices until QA. Then everyone blames the handoff.

The third is review paralysis. The more stakeholders in a review, the less actionable the feedback. The designer leaves with 20 opinions and no clear path forward.

Each of these is solvable. None of them require new tools.

They require a different operating structure — clearer ownership, tighter feedback loops, decisions made once and documented where the team can find them.

What I've learned doing this in fintech teams across three continents: the bottleneck is never what the team thinks it is in the first week.