Robot Readiness: What to Automate, and What to Leave Alone

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  General

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  • Select activity ROBOT TRAINER · FOUNDATIONSThe future should be tr...

    ROBOT TRAINER · FOUNDATIONS

    The future should be trained by people who still understand the ground.

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• Select section Fix First

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  Fix First

  Automation is a multiplier. Point it at a broken process and you get more broken, faster.

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• Select section Seeing the Work

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  Seeing the Work

  You cannot automate what you cannot describe. Most people cannot describe their own work — not through carelessness, but because expertise hides itself.

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  • Select activity Counting the real cost

    

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• Select section The Automation Test

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  The Automation Test

  Five questions. Run them out loud, in order, before you build anything. If you cannot answer one, that is the work — not the code.

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  • Select activity Check yourself: the automation test

    

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  Failure Is the Feature

  Every automation you build will fail. The design question is not whether — it is whether it fails loudly.

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  • Select activity Silence is the dangerous failure

    

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• Select section Your Readiness Plan

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  Your Readiness Plan

  Now put it on a real task of your own. This is the part that makes the course worth ninety minutes.

  • Select activity Readiness plan for one real task

    

    Readiness plan for one real task Assignment

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  • Select activity Final check: readiness

    

    Final check: readiness Quiz

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  • Select activity Where to go from here

    

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