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Posted: February 27, 2018
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Resource estimates for converting an RDA to an RPA
We are looking at converting some RDA's to RPA's and have been asked to give some high-level estimates on this conversion. For example if the original RDA took 2 developers 2 weeks, could we estimate the conversion to take the same resource effort, or could we estimate half or some fraction? Assume the thought process into servers, configuration, error handling has been done. I am looking to see if anyone has done this and has some experience. thanks,
Hi Kelli,
The conversion effort is really dependent on the use case and whether it is already tailored to what an RPA would do. For instance, a RPA process should include only the process to perform a single activity (doing multiple activities is handled by Robot Manager). An RDA process might include a loop structure to handle multiple activities and managing that part of the process. If the RDA process has logically separated the looping from the performing of the single activity it may be possible to convert to an RPA process rather quickly. If the logic is not separated it may require extensive recoding.
Jeff