Ready Your Team for the Digital Future’s Delivery Environment
The increasing pace of automation requires you as a project manager to ensure your team is ready for the unique needs of these types of projects. But how can you be prepared to do so when automation-driven efforts can be small or massive?
It’s possible to create a short list of things you can do to build team readiness. Two types of projects—one from the “small” end of the spectrum and one from the “very large” end of the spectrum—will illustrate just how a PM can do so. The good news is that if you are prepared to master the tactics necessary to succeed with the uniqueness, you will become a highly prized resource in the future (where there will only be more automation projects).
Small End of the Spectrum: Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
You may be experienced with upgrading applications, whether it’s to update to the latest version or to customize the existing application to better fit your organization. But another type of automated enhancement is becoming more common: RPA. This type of enhancement is created outside of the application. It creates software robots to replace or improve upon effort exerted by humans while using the application.
This type of enhancement can be “easier” to deliver because there is an existing platform on which the software robots can be created and implemented very quickly
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Published at Wed, 26 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000