BTOES From Home Speaker Spotlight: Tony Higgins from Blueprint Software Systems

Read this article from Tony Higgins, from Blueprint Software Systems, one of our Speakers, for the BTOES From Home.

The Document is Dead – How Digital Blueprints Radically Accelerate and Scale the Design & Delivery of Process Automation

The Process Design Document (PDD) is the most common mechanism used in automation, but that doesn’t mean it’s the most effective.

Documents invite delay, bottlenecks, errors, missed requirements, and rework into your process automation initiatives. Documents are complicated, siloed, hard to collaborate on, impossible to visualize, and aren’t scalable. Plus, they’re a huge time and value suck - business users are slow to make them, developers don’t read them close enough, testers struggle to ensure proper test coverage, and compliance teams are often left out of the mix entirely.

The use of paper-based, heavy PDDs is a major factor that has prevented companies from effectively scaling their use of automation and seeing the ROI that was anticipated. In many ways, the use of PDDs can be directly connected to RPA downtime and the rising cost of bot maintenance that impacts ROI and inhibits automation at scale.

To effectively scale the design and delivery of process automation via high-quality development that limits bot maintenance and errors, organizations need tools that are more iterative, automated, and collaborative than manual, paper-based, error-prone documents.

Enter the Digital Blueprint.

A Digital Blueprint is the new, unique way to plan, design, and communicate automation work. It encompasses everything you need to effectively and efficiently deliver mission-critical business solutions for your process automation initiatives.

Digital Blueprints include highly detailed process flows, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, regulatory requirements and both functional and acceptance test criteria, amongst other critical information, to help you successfully deliver business solutions.

The Value of a Digital Blueprint:

Reduces rework and maintenance costs: Digital Blueprints contain all the rich context that needs to be communicated to RPA developers that leads to faster and higher-quality development. This context, along with the other critical information in a Digital Blueprint, ensures you can scale your automation initiatives and minimize rework and maintenance costs.
Increases compliance: When you connect your processes and even process steps to relevant business information like dependencies, legacy systems, and most importantly, regulations, this information is automatically included in Digital Blueprints. That means that this critical enterprise context is explicit and visible for RPA developers, facilitating more precise development which leads to more compliant bots while also aiding compliance audits and reports when needed.
Simplifies change management and risk analysis: By tracing all critical enterprise context and business information to your processes in Digital Blueprints, you can analyze the impact of change instantly and make your change management strategy proactive to minimize automation downtime.
Improves speed of development: Digital Blueprints can automatically generate all functional and acceptance test criteria, as well as sync over ‘skeleton’ versions of your process flows directly into your RPA tools of choice through bi-directional integrations.

In short, Digital Blueprints are the better way to scale and deliver higher-quality automations that radically limit bot errors and maintenance.

BTOES From Home

The issues in this article are just one of topic areas that are going to be discussed at the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit & Industry

BTOES is the industry’s biggest and best, senior-level, cross-industry gathering of Business Transformation & Operational Excellence industry leaders and senior executives.

It also hosts the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards, which showcase globally the most outstanding organizational achievements through the application of Operational Excellence programs.

The summits hosts a number of private forums for C-Level & Global corporate-level leaders as well as business unit heads.

With over 150 speakers, over 100 sessions, 12 Keynotes, 9 Track Themes, 5 parallel tracks, 60+ track sessions, 50 roundtable discussions, 20 Interactive Workshops, 6 Thought Leader Panels, 5 Leaders Boardrooms, 5 co-located events and the Industry Awards Program. This is ultimate event to benchmark, network and drive Operational Excellence to the next level.

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There is a strong focus on Cultural Transformation, Customer Delight, Sustaining an Operational Excellence program, Need for end-to-end Business Transformation, Keeping up with new technologies/impact of digitalization and Leadership Buy-in & Understanding. We dedicated two tracks to advanced technologies, such as AI, Machine Learning, RPA, Predictive Analytics, Blockchain, Cloud infrastructure etc.

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