Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Low Code, Hyperautomation… Do you also ask yourself what's behind those buzzwords apart from shiny marketing brochures? Should you ignore them, fight them, or is there probably some gold you can mine?
In this talk, I will cut through the b…s bingo to show you real advantages and give concrete advice for developers. I want to sketch a nuanced picture of how an organization can "automate everything" and talk about the core role developers play. As organizations lack enough senior engineers to code away all use cases, they need every hand they can get for automation.
I will discuss, where developers can enable other roles in the organization to contribute to automation projects for example during requirements engineering or implementation. And yes, this will involve an intelligent way of low code. I will give you a map to navigate nuances of which approach fits which problem so that you can help the whole organization succeed in the automation game.
I am a software developer at heart who has been innovating process automation deployed in highly scalable and agile environments of industry leaders such as T-Mobile, Lufthansa, ING, and Atlassian. I contributed to various open-source workflow engines for more than 15 years and I'm the Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of Camunda – an open-source software company reinventing process automation. I ...