Understanding the opportunity

Building and maintaining an automation pipeline is the catalyst to a successful automation program. A successful automation pipeline should always be flowing with ideas of differing levels of complexity and value. In this section, we will investigate how to keep the automation pipeline staffed by evaluating, investigating, and prioritizing opportunities.

Evaluating opportunities

Now that our master opportunity log is full of automation opportunities and is prioritized based on estimated data (including value, complexity, and suitability), we can venture into each opportunity and assess which candidates are best suited for automation. During these assessments, additional meetings with business stakeholder(s) might be conducted to vet the feasibility and calibrate the qualitative ratings before starting implementation. For vetting and further evaluating the opportunities within our master opportunity log, we perform the following exercises:

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