In the latest Process Mining Café, Rudi and I talked about project planning. First, we discussed how you can select a suitable process for your process mining project. Then, we went through the five main ingredients for making a good project plan:

1. Be clear about the objective

2. Understand the methodology around process mining

3. Assemble the right project team

4. Mitigate the key risks

5. Identify deliverables and make project plan

You can now watch the recording here if you missed the live broadcast or want to re-watch the café. Thanks again to all of you for joining us!

Links

Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:

• Which process mining project should you start with?

• Example of a fully automated process, where process mining was still useful: Boris from Vanderlande used process mining to solve a problem of recirculating parcels

• Combining Lean Six Sigma and process mining

• Process mining camp talk by Wilco and Dave from CZ about process mining in internal audit

• Case study: Auditing with process mining

• Skills and roles needed in your process mining project

• Previous Process Mining Café about common data preparation questions for process mining

• Process mining does not discover project plans (like Gantt charts) but you can analyze project processes. In our Process Mining Café about ‘Project vs. Process Thinking’ we talked about how project management processes often contain a lot of parallelism

• Marc from KLM looked at the characteristics of the different agile teams

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We are happy to announce the release of Disco 3.6.

This update makes loading your log data into Disco even faster and more reliable, especially if you are importing from CSV or Excel documents. We have also thoroughly updated Disco’s foundation, so you should expect better performance, less bugs, and improved security all around.

Thanks for all your feedback, you are really doing the Lord’s work here. Keep it up and, as always, thank you for using Disco!

How to update

We recommend that you update to the latest version of Disco at your earliest convenience. Disco will automatically download and install this update the next time you run it, if you are connected to the internet¹.

If you prefer to install this update of Disco manually, you can download and run the latest installer packages from fluxicon.com/disco/download

Changes

• CSV Import: Improved stability and performance.
• Excel Import: Improved stability and performance.
• XES Export: Fixed validation issues.
• macOS: Fix graph layout for some Apple silicon users stuck on Big Sur.
• Connection: Improved stability.
• Control Center: Improved hardware detection.
• Platform:
  • Java update.
  • Streamlined dependencies.

In our next Process Mining Café this Wednesday, Rudi and I will discuss what it takes to create a good project plan for your process mining project. Join us!

The café takes place this week, Wednesday, 20 September, at 15:00 CEST! (Check your timezone here). As always, there is no registration required. Simply point your browser to fluxicon.com/cafe when it is time. You can watch the café and join the discussion while we are on the air, right there on the café website.

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Tune in live for Process Mining Café by visiting fluxicon.com/cafe this week, Wednesday, 20 September, at 15:00 CEST! Add the time to your calendar if you don’t want to miss it.

In this last Process Mining Café before our summer break, we spoke with Nuno Serra from Food4Sustainability CoLAB in Portugal.

If you are creative, you can find process mining data in unexpected places. Nuno showed us how he turned static data from an agricultural government funding program into a process view. After creating timestamps and activities from implicit information, he could analyze how farmers requested more or less aid over the years in the context of the development of their farms.

You can now watch the recording here if you missed the live broadcast or want to re-watch the café. Thanks again to Nuno and to all of you for joining us!

Links

Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:

• Information and brochure about the project (both in Portuguese)

Contact us via cafe@fluxicon.com if you have questions or suggestions for the café anytime.

Have you already seen that the Process Mining Café is now also available as a podcast? So, if you prefer to listen to our episodes in your favorite podcast player, you can get them all here.

Sign up to our café mailing list, the YouTube playlist, follow Fluxicon on LinkedIn, or add the café calendar to never miss a Process Mining Café in the future.

Food4Sustainability CoLAB is a non-profit association dedicated to innovation in sustainable food production. Nuno Serra is the director at Food4Sustainability and has used process mining to evaluate the effect of public policy on farmers.

In our next Process Mining Café this Wednesday, Nuno will show us how he tweaked the data to be able to use it for process mining and what kind of analyses he could then do with it. Join us!

Discuss public policy and data magic with us this week, Wednesday, 19 July, at 15:00 CEST! (Check your timezone here). As always, there is no registration required. Simply point your browser to fluxicon.com/cafe when it is time. You can watch the café and join the discussion while we are on the air, right there on the café website.

Sign up for the café mailing list here to receive a reminder one hour before the session starts.

Tune in live for Process Mining Café by visiting fluxicon.com/cafe this week, Wednesday, 19 July, at 15:00 CEST! Add the time to your calendar if you don’t want to miss it.