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Process Document Definition

Process Definition Document

Process Design Document

Process Document Design

A central RPA team servicing the whole organization

Individual RPA teams with knowledge and governance sharing in each division

A central RPA supporting multiple divisional RPA teams

Follow structured impact assessment process that evaluates benefits, delivery and ongoing support costs

Alignment of strategic business drivers and impact or not making the change

Process to reflect existing organizational approach for managing change

Business case modeling

Referral handling

Scheduling

Deployment

Exception Handling

Will examine the process prior to a solution design and the commencement of the configuration stage

Will explain how the process will be automated

Will be the process’s introduction to the complete end-to-end business process

Will be the readiness to be roll out into the production environment

Process Definition Instructions

Process Design Instructions

Procedural Design Instructions

Process Definition Instruments

Project Manger

Process Analyst

Process Developer

Support Analyst

Describe in detail the Blue Prism processes, components, business objects, work queues and credentials used to support the Blue Prism solution

Describes in detail a single Blue Prism Business Object, including all the actions in the object and all the inputs and outputs to those actions

Describes in detail the impact on the Operation from the delivery of the automated solution

Captures the flow of a business process to be developed within Blue Prism

Technology

Process

People

Technology, Process and People

Instituonalize

Industrialize

Initialize

The End

Captures important details critical to implementation, and upon which functional and technical decisions are based

Captures the flow of a business process to be developed within Blue Prism

Describes in detail the impact on the Operation from the delivery of the automated solution

Comprehensive document containing, not only high-level details of how the Blue Prism product will deliver the solution, but also includes details of other deliverables that are required for the solution

Captures the flow of a business process to be developed within Blue Prism

Captures important details critical to implementation, and upon which functional and technical decisions are based

Describes in detail a single Blue Prism Business Object, including all the actions in the object and all the inputs and outputs to those actions

Describes in detail the impact on the Operation from the delivery of the automated solution

Technology

Operations

HR

None of the above

To build and deploy automated processes for each business area within their organization

Determine which IT tools in the organization Blue Prism is going to replace

Drive the implementation of the Robotic Operating Model and become the champions of the concept of the new Digital Workforce

None of the above

Operational (BAU) resources handling process scenarios out of scope

Developers handling unexpected scenarios where Blue Prism doesn’t perform as designed

Blue Prism Controllers managing the workload and demand for the Digital Workforce

IT providing infrastructure failover and disaster recovery

Provides a mechanism for ensuring a model is in place for the robots to eventually replace the human workforce so there is no seamless interaction

It provides the foundations for evolving the traditional Target Operating Model to embrace the robots and establish a seamless bi-directional flow of work between the human and the digital workforce

Enables IT to encompass RPA as a software offering as part of their suite and projects are therefore delivered by IT

Allows the organization to understand that eventually the digital workforce will replace the human workforce and the model enables the proceeding to begin in the replacement occurring

The method by which Blue Prism will access the target applications

Operational contingency procedures

The definition of what is permitted to be written to the Blue Prism logs

The requirements for backing up Process configuration outside the database

Not scalable across the enterprise

Needs the consistency across departments

Can lead to duplication of hardware infrastructure and Blue Prism deliverables

Implementing centralized change and automation delivery management disciplines across multiple operations functions can be problematic the model does not already exist

It is only suitable as a short-term solution

Establish where IT projects should no longer be engaged and can be replaced by RPA

Target technology architecture and solution

Processes and governance required to manage business demand, the automation delivery lifecycle and change management

Where the RPA Capability fits within the broader organization

A single-minded vision that expressed the desire to reduce operational head count and replace the human workforce with a digitalise workforce

Clearly articulate that RPA will take over the organizations strategical goals and is best placed to do so

Until you can articulate a clear shared vision, you are unlikely to win over all the key stakeholders that you need in an organization

Needs to outline the risks and mitigation strategies for when RPA is rolled out across the entire organization

Enables humans to focus on higher value judgement-based decision making and customer relationship

Automations are quick to develop and deploy and components are reusable

Segregation of roles between development and operations

Process automation results in standardization of best practice

Accountable for RPA benefits case

Managing third parties, including software vendor relationships

Accountable for development and delivery of the demand pipeline

Accountable to executive management for business performance of the RPA capabilities

This is a digitalized machine with a standard user desktop image with Blue Prism installed

This is a digitalized machine with a standard user desktop image and Blue Prism installed with the business applications

This marshals all connectivity between the Blue Prism components and the database

This is an SQL server which you may sometimes hear pronounced as a sequel server

Load Developer

Head of RPA

Business Analyst

Head of Operations/Business Owners

Head of IT

Technical Architect

The marshals all connectivity between the Blue Prism components and the database

This is a physical device which has remote connectivity to the interactive clients and optionally to Runtime Resources

This is a digitalized machine with a standard user desktop image with Blue Prism installed

This is a digitalized machine with a standard user desktop image and Blue Prism installed with the business applications

Defining the management, reporting, scheduling and referral handing processes for BAU

Identify the expected business benefits and outline how these align to corporate strategy

Defining a scalable, low maintenance technical environment and associated growth strategy

Defining the organization design that best supports delivery of the RPA capability and aligns with corporate strategy and culture

Foundation Training

Creating a Process Definition Document (PDD)

Work Queues Guide