Process Mining Camp will take place just over a month from now! We are excited to see you all and will reveal the last details about this year’s camp very soon. Stay tuned and sign up at our camp mailing list to be notified once the full program is published. With our three workshops on the second day, hands-on practice will be a big part of this year’s camp. In this spirit, we dedicate today’s Process Mining Café to a hands-on session on variants. Rudi and Anne will take you on a journey to think about variants, explain possible traps if you rely on variants as an indicator too early, and sh ..read more

In last week’s Process Mining Café, we talked with Miguel Angel Gómez from PROA about his process mining project at Chopo Laboratories in Mexico. We discussed the results of their analysis and the benefits they got from the improvement. Interestingly, they did not focus on cost-cutting but increased revenue by 6 million Pesos (350,000 USD) without hiring additional people. Finding your way to your business case as a process miner is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: You first have to do the analysis to determine the improvement potential. So, it can be a good idea to perform a small pilot p ..read more

This year’s Process Mining Camp on 13 & 14 June is made for experts. But that does not mean that those of you who are new to process mining should not attend. In fact, as beginners we learn best when we see, first-hand, more advanced practitioners at work. We all learn the fastest by observing experts at the top of their game. Nevertheless, it can be useful for you to have a solid grip on the basics, so that you are better able to follow the discussions. This is why, this year, we offer an optional boot camp training just before camp for those of you who are new to process mining. When yo ..read more

In the next Process Mining Café this Wednesday, we have invited Miguel Gómez from PROA in Mexico. PROA is a healthcare services provider that collects samples and takes images to produce medical interpretations that help people make decisions related to their medical treatments. Miguel has done several process mining projects that have had a big impact at the company. In the café, we will talk about these projects in more detail. One of his challenges was that after the improvement he was asked to quantify the benefits. Together, we will discuss how to make a business case for process mining ..read more

Most organizations have complex processes that are hard to manage and control. Moving out of a fire-fighting mode and stepping back to understand the existing business processes is the necessary starting point for process improvement. A lot of data is available in IT systems (e.g., CRM, ERP, Workflow, PDM, ITSM, homemade or legacy systems, data warehouses, or even Excel) that contain detailed information about which activities are performed, when, and by whom. What is needed are quick methods to gain insight in this data to understand the underlying processes and take actions. Process mining ..read more

In last week’s Process Mining Café, Andrea Delgado and Daniel Calegari from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, showed us how they used process mining on open data for an urban mobility project. Before the session, they had already shared a detailed description along with all the scripts to reproduce their approach. We had a lively discussion in the café and you are invited to continue the conversation, whether per email, on LinkedIn, or with Andrea and Daniel directly. You can now watch the recording here if you missed the live broadcast or want to re-watch the café. Thanks to Puttwald ..read more

Your browser does not seem to support this video. Hands-on practice is at the very heart of this year’s Process Mining Camp on 13 and 14 June. Above, you can watch a short video we recorded to tell you more about the workshops on the second day of camp. To help you advance your process mining skills, you will get to work on real-life data sets. You will be exposed to the same challenges that you typically also encounter in your own process mining projects, supported by our expert guidance. You will participate in three workshops that fit together perfectly, with each of them focusing on differ ..read more

In the next Process Mining Café tomorrow, we have invited Andrea Delgado and Daniel Calegari from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, to talk about their process mining case study for urban mobility. They discover process flows for the bus lines in Montevideo using open data from the city. They then export the XML process maps from Disco to display the discovered processes in the spatial city map. Andrea and Daniel share their scripts and will give you all the information that you need to reproduce their steps. How could you do a similar analysis for your own city? Join us tomorrow, Wed ..read more

This is a guest article by Andrea Delgado, Daniel Calegari, and Nicolás Carignani from the Computer Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. They have used open data to discover the process flows from bus lines in Montevideo. They then exported the XML process maps from Disco to display the discovered processes in the spatial city map. In this article, they explain their approach and give you all their scripts and the information that you need to reproduce the approach for your own city. If you have a guest article or process mining case study that you w ..read more

This year’s Process Mining Camp will run for two full days — Fire up your calendar and block 13 and 14 June 2024 right away! Since the beginning, we have always been making changes and improvements to the way we run camp. This year, however, we took a big step back and thought about what we can do so that you can get even more out of camp. You are a dedicated practitioner who is serious about process mining. You want to improve your craft and skills, and level up in your mastery of process mining. At the same time, you want to have deep, meaningful interactions and connect with the global pro ..read more