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RPA Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Sachin Sahgal
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RPA Solution Architect's Handbook

By: Sachin Sahgal

Overview of this book

RPA solution architects play an important role in the automation journey and initiatives within the organization. However, the implementation process is quite complex and daunting at times. RPA Solution Architect’s Handbook is a playbook for solution architects looking to build well-designed and scalable RPA solutions. You’ll begin by understanding the different roles, responsibilities, and interactions between cross-functional teams. Then, you’ll learn about the pillars of a good design: stability, maintainability, scalability, and resilience, helping you develop a process design document, solution design document, SIT/UAT scripts, and wireframes. You’ll also learn how to design reusable components for faster, cheaper, and better RPA implementation, and design and develop best practices for module decoupling, handling garbage collection, and exception handling. At the end of the book, you’ll explore the concepts of privacy, security, reporting automated processes, analytics, and taking preventive action to keep the bots healthy. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to undertake a complete RPA process from design to implementation efficiently.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1:Role of a Solution Architect
5
Part 2:Being Techno/Functional
11
Part 3: Tool Agnostic Approach
17
Part 4:Best Practices
22
Epilogue

Coaching and mentoring

Everyone in life needs some guidance, coaching, and mentoring. We, as humans, are wired to learn from others since childhood. Our parents were our first coaches and next, our teachers. You need to play a similar role in your talent pool. Your team will get the opportunity to know you and your coworkers in coaching and mentoring sessions. Let’s talk about how you can build a plan for your resources and work with them so they become the next you. It goes without saying that sharing is caring. The more you share your knowledge with them, the stronger they become in the face of any challenges. It also helps to make them aware of your style of work and how you want them to address a specific situation or scenario.

Let’s take a scenario: your team is working on a project and hits a roadblock. What are the steps they should take to find a solution, and when should they reach out for help? This is something that depends on individuals and their capabilities...