Overview
The Time Between All Activity Pairs calculator analyzes the duration between consecutive activities in your process. This comprehensive calculator helps identify bottlenecks, performance issues, and time delays between process steps across all activity combinations.
Common Uses
- See the duration between all process activities
- Find bottlenecks between process activities
- Identify the slowest transitions in your process
- Analyze waiting times between steps
- Compare performance across different activity pairs
Settings
Case Percent Threshold: Specify the minimum percentage of cases in which an activity pair must occur to be included in the output.
For example, if you specify '20', only activity pairs where one activity directly follows another in at least 20% of cases will be included. This setting helps filter out rare activity pairs that may not be representative of normal process flow.
Example
Analyzing Activity Pair Durations
Scenario: You want to see the duration between activity pairs that occur in at least 5% of cases to focus on common process paths.
Settings:
- Case Percent Threshold: 5
Output Options:
The calculator provides three visualization modes:
Heatmap (recommended):
- Visual representation of duration between each activity pair
- Red-yellow color scale represents total duration (warmer colors = longer times)
- Gray represents activity pairs with no direct-follows relationship or frequency below threshold
- Quickly identifies hotspots and bottlenecks
Grid:
- Displays time between activities in tabular format
- Best for sorting on different values depending on analysis needs
- Allows detailed numerical comparison
Matrix:
- Same information as heatmap but in tabular format
- Best for exporting data in matrix format for external analysis
Output Metrics:
You can select different statistical measures:
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Mean | Average duration between activities |
| Median | Middle value of durations (less affected by outliers) |
| Max | Maximum duration between activities |
| Sum | Total duration across all occurrences |
| Stdev | Standard deviation of durations |
| MAD | Median absolute deviation of durations |
Insights:
The heatmap quickly reveals:
- Bottleneck activity pairs (dark red/yellow areas)
- Fast transitions (light areas)
- Common vs. rare process paths
- Unusual delays requiring investigation
This analysis is essential for identifying where to focus process improvement efforts for maximum impact.
This documentation is part of the mindzie Studio process mining platform.