Last week’s Process Mining Café was dedicated to a hands-on session about variants. Variants are their own dimension of looking at a process and they complement the process map. They look at sequences of activities from the beginning until the end of the process. Therefore, they provide a simplified, scenario-based view of the process. But the crux is that you need to make sure that your variants are on the right level before you analyze them.
You can now watch the recording here if you missed the live broadcast or want to re-watch the café. Thanks to all of you for joining us!
Links
Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:
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Article about how to understand the variants in your process
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Muthu’s approach to determining process capability based on variants
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Simplification strategies such as the milestone method, the trimming of the process, and the removal of spider activities help to bring the variants to the right level
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Keep in mind that you are not limited to the literal variants, but semantic variants can group behavior on any level that is meaningful for your process
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When you consider variants in your process, you may end up asking yourself in which situations outliers should be included or excluded
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Manfred had asked about simulation in the chat, and we promised to link the Process Mining Café about process mining and simulation here
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Anne Rozinat
Market, customers, and everything else
Anne knows how to mine a process like no other. She has conducted a large number of process mining projects with companies such as Philips Healthcare, Océ, ASML, Philips Consumer Lifestyle, and many others.
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