Rozmin Parpia
ServiceNow Employee

Welcome to Process Mining in Minutes, a new video series covering real use cases across ServiceNow agentic and deterministic workflows. Each minute is short, focused on a single outcome, and built around how Process Mining actually gets used in the real world.

 

Minute 19: Digital Product Release

 

Your releases ship on time. But the release notes behind them? That's a different story. When release tasks breach SLA by an average of 3 weeks and 95% of your records are affected; the bottleneck isn't the code. It's the documentation process.

 

Process Mining lets you visualize the full lifecycle of release note tasks from Pending through Developer, Application Developer, Open, App Owner, Work in Progress, to Closed Complete and surface exactly where time is being lost. Use Improvement Opportunities to detect patterns like "Release task SLA - longer than 7 days" and quantify the damage: 1,430 records, 93 years of accumulated inefficiency.

 

Then layer in Work Note Analysis to understand why tasks are stalling. Are service providers taking too long? Are agents assigned but not acting? AI-powered summarization highlights root causes and pinpoints where AI agents can step in to accelerate quality and velocity whether that's auto-drafting release notes, nudging idle owners, or flagging blocked tasks earlier.

 

Stop letting release notes be the silent drag on your release velocity. Mine the process and fix it.

 

New minutes drop weekly. Follow the full series here

 

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