Look… we get it; it’s easy to get carried away with the “let’s automate this, let’s automate that, let’s automate everything!” enthusiasm.
Before you go ahead and commit your team to a ton of automation work spanning the foreseeable sprints, it is best to have a sit down with your leads and establish an outline of all domains in which automation makes sense, prioritize those where repetitive high-frequency tasks reside, reduce hours consumed by your in-house skill overwhelmed by running routine tasks, and work your way down that list.
The last thing any directive would want is for their team spending months on an automation build-out, only to no longer be needed due to product life-cycle deprecation.
The goal of automation is to simplify and streamline workflow, reduce overhead, and allow skill to be leveraged where it is needed most… and that is not, in troubleshooting automation complexity issues.
Technologist, Cloud Promoter, Automation and Continuous Optimization Advocate.