# Automation Cycle

Canonical page: https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle

Language: en

Entity ID: automation-cycle

A cycle for selecting, designing, delivering, enabling, and improving automation solutions across people, rules, workflows, agents, integrations, UI automation, and operations.

Guide teams from external customer and capability outcomes to a validated, governed, and operable automation solution.

## Entry criteria

- The automation hypothesis has enough referenced evidence about expected outcome, scope, initial implementation assumptions, critical risks, validation experiment, thresholds, and decision to determine whether it should proceed. (ID: automation-opportunity-evidence-ready)
- Ownership is clear for the automation opportunity, process decisions, PoC validation, risks, and lifecycle outcomes. (ID: automation-owner-confirmed)

## Exit criteria

- The selected automation architecture, implementation mechanisms, human controls, security constraints, and recovery approach have been validated with the relevant stakeholders. (ID: automation-architecture-and-controls-validated)
- The automation has evidence for functional correctness, permissions, exception handling, oversight, monitoring, support, rollback, and operational ownership. (ID: automation-operational-readiness-confirmed)
- Automation performance, process outcomes, risk signals, manual interventions, incidents, and realized benefits can be monitored and used to prioritize improvements. (ID: automation-value-monitoring-ready)

## Stations in journey order

- [Automation Opportunity Strategy](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-product-strategy.md)
- [Process & Experience Requirements](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-consumer-experience.md)
- [Automation Architecture & Platform Decision](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-platform-architecture.md)
- [Automation Workflow Design](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-design.md)
- [Automation Delivery & Operations](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-delivery.md)
- [Automation Readiness Review](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-audit.md)
- [Automation Rollout & Enablement](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-publishing.md)
- [Automation Monitoring & Improvement](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/monitoring-and-improving.md)