Compute it, don't claim it
Tool comparisons without checkmark tables, calculations you can redo yourself, and use cases worked through end to end. Everything here can be verified — otherwise it isn't here.
- Comparison17 Aug 2026
Simulating a process in Visio: why it does not work — and what to do instead
“Simulate a process in Visio” is one of the most common searches in the process field — and the answer is no. What is more interesting is what somebody searching that way actually needs.
Read - Comparison13 Aug 2026
BPMN with simulation: what the notation can compute — and what it cannot
“Our BPMN tool does simulation” means anything from a plausibility check to a full discrete-event engine, depending on the product. Five questions that tell the difference in ten minutes.
Read - Comparison11 Aug 2026
Process simulation software: four categories, four purposes
“Which tool should I buy?” is the wrong question. Software for business processes falls into four categories with four different purposes — and most bad purchases happen because someone bought from the wrong category.
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- Method17 Aug 2026
Monte Carlo simulation for business processes: what it does and when it lies
Monte Carlo is not a magic word, it is systematic dice-rolling: the same process, hundreds of times, with different random draws each time. What comes out is not a number but a distribution — and that is the whole point.
Read - Method17 Aug 2026
Reading P10, P50 and P90 — and where the average misleads you
Percentiles are not statistician's vanity; they are the only honest way to report a result that varies. Three numbers, three purposes — and three misreadings that routinely end up in decision papers.
Read - Method16 Aug 2026
Process costs in Excel: four mistakes that sink any business case
Nearly every business case for process improvement is built in Excel. And nearly every one contains the same four mistakes — not through carelessness, but because a spreadsheet structurally cannot represent certain things.
Read - Method14 Aug 2026
How to calculate a bottleneck: why 85 % utilisation is already too much
The bottleneck is not the longest step, it is the step with the highest utilisation. And waiting time does not grow linearly with utilisation — it explodes just before the limit. The maths behind it fits on one page.
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