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Do you have any guess how long it will take to break even? Presumably you charged some amount to spend a few days automating it and hopefully it frees her up t
by troupe 3y ago
Do you have any guess how long it will take to break even? Presumably you charged some amount to spend a few days automating it and hopefully it frees her up to do something more valuable for the company.
Sometimes the reason things aren't automated is because there isn't anything more valuable for that person to do so automation doesn't have a positive return on investment.
- ethbr1 3y agoIt was an internal citizen developer initiative that I was supporting externally. Don't know her salary, so couldn't say. > because there isn't anything more valuable for that person to do I've seen an interesting shift post-COVID where (remaining) ops workers are often more coordinators of / responsible for their area of responsibility. Which is a distinction because in that sort of job, not having Task X leads directing into finding something else you can be doing to improve your area.
- concordDance 3y agoCan't speak for them, but I've done office automation work with a breakeven measured in days.
- criddell 3y agoI’ve automated things where the breakeven will occur decades from now. It was fun though, the chance of errors is decreased, and I learned a bunch of new stuff. Sometimes it’s about the journey and not the destination.
- ethbr1 3y agoCalculating breakeven ROI is part of the push from a lot of companies to start citizen developer initiatives. The point being that the "I" is also flexible -- an existing employee fooling around to learn automation whenever they have downtime is much cheaper than hiring a consultant. Sure, the automation is worse and delivered more slowly. But you can get automations from a lot of people in parallel, plus you're upskilling your workforce.