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Focuses on solution and interface design principles that can be used across APIs, integrations, automations, data products, and other implementation styles.

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Stations

  1. Automation Architecture & Platform Decision

    Use impact, location, capacity, and earlier requirements to choose the automation implementation approach and record the rationale and remaining risks.

  2. Automation Workflow Design

    Design the internal workflow needed to deliver the selected customer and capability outcomes, including work allocation, controls, exceptions, recovery, evidence, and monitoring.

  3. Automation Delivery & Operations

    Build, configure, test, version, deploy, and prepare the operating model for the selected automation path, including ownership, environments, runbooks, monitoring, fallback, rollback, support, and known risks.

  4. Automation Readiness Review

    Use a readiness checklist to review evidence and record the release decision: ready, ready with conditions, remediation required, or not approved.