What are the benefits of RPA in project management automation?
RPA impacts project management in several ways. First, automation makes project completion faster and easier and reduces time spent on redundant tasks. While these tasks are necessary, using bots allows humans to engage in higher-level tasks.
Increases Productivity
RPA does productivity really well. One way is to streamline workflows throughout the organization and, in doing so, increase the ability for departments to collaborate. In addition, automation helps handle interdepartmental dependencies, including sending notifications to key stakeholders when approvals or additional work is needed.
Scales To Your Needs
One way to build a proof of concept is to use intelligent process discovery, which helps locate where automation can help relieve manual project management processes. It's not unheard of for the first implementation to be for a specific process or stream of relevant processes in the same workflow and then scale up from there.
Ensures Transparency
Project management automation promotes a high level of transparency within the organization. It helps to shed light on each team's productivity and boost team performance with automatic, real-time status updates, templates for deliverables, and easy collaboration. Transparency means more gets done in less time.
Removes Human Error
Let's face it; humans make mistakes. You can mitigate the number of errors by applying automation tools, like IDP, to project management tasks. For example, your OCR software can automatically read documents, identify the data, and file them away to be easily located later.
Task Prioritization
RPA provides intelligent task prioritization based on set criteria. For example, in IT, bots can access tickets and prioritize based on the issue. For CSRs, bots can move tickets to the front of the line. For project planning, prioritization can be set with templates and stored workflows.
Lower Operation Costs
Project teams can use automation to monitor and alert them of potentially costly issues. For example, if someone is overloaded, it can cause bottlenecks. Workflow automation can catch bottlenecks before starting, optimize processes, and reduce overtime to achieve the best results.
Who benefits from the use of RPA in project management automation?
RPA adoption takes the frustration out of manual processes for PMs, allowing team members to adopt the Agile methodology, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" better. The benefits are recognizable in every area of the organization.
CPFL Energia embraces automation so teams have more time to dedicate to analytical and strategy activities
"Automating processes with the Automation Anywhere Enterprise RPA platform has helped us increase employee productivity, mitigate operational risks, and increase customer satisfaction. Now, we can deploy the digital transformation to all CPFL’s groups."
– Aloisio Kukolj, RPA Program Manager
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How RPA in project management can help your business
As you can see, project management automation has the ability to benefit every area of an organization across industries. But how can it directly impact your business? Here are a few ways:
Improved Resource Capability Planning
- Accurately analyze the impact of project and service delivery on resource capability
- Get real-time, accurate insights on employees to locate necessary skill levels for team building
- Review company resources for necessary materials, software, and equipment from a single source of truth
- Automatically create requirements based on project details entered into a user-friendly dashboard
- Forecast toolsets, competencies, project roles, responsibilities, and project pricing
- Build out a resource schedule and calendar based on stakeholder availability
Consistent Project Planning
- Build and deploy custom workflows based on specified aspects of the project
- Accurately forecast the length of time for like projects based on accurate data
- Instantly notify key stakeholders when a project is waiting on their approval
- Project planners receive organized feedback in a central place for easy review
- Notify project leads when there is a change in the status of their requests
- Plan better with complete visibility into organizational resources and timelines
Improved Time Spent
- Save time logging into multiple apps with Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities
- Reduce time spent searching through various data locations with a centralized source of truth
- Remove data entry from project management tasks with intelligent document processing
- Reduce project development time with continuous monitoring of task status
- Create in depth project reports on demand for oversight committees
- Save PMs time by automatically performing the repetitive yet straightforward tasks
Better Data Management
- Remove human errors by using bots for accurate data entry and retrieval
- Track data usage throughout the organization with automatically created audit trails
- Securely supply data on demand to project stakeholders with role-based access and metadata management
- Update global data in real time from anywhere in the organization
- Get better data quality with bots that profile, clean, link and reconcile with a master source
- Accurately extract data from unstructured sources with OCR to create searchable metadata
What to look for when using RPA in project management
Project management automation can be applied to developing healthcare initiatives, redeploying an ERP solution, or building out employee training programs. Not all industries are the same; what you need in an RPA platform is dependent on your business.
For example, some industries require a higher degree of security than others. In this case, a key feature would be bank-grade security, encrypted data transfers, and levels of ISO certification.
Food, beverage, and retail industries need to make sure their RPA solution includes being able to integrate with third-party and legacy Point of Sale systems. In addition, companies transitioning to digital would need a cloud-native SaaS flexible enough to embrace their infrastructure.
Does it scale to fit company expansion or downtimes? Can it integrate with your third-party apps and legacy systems? Is it user-friendly? All of these aspects should be considered when choosing your RPA solution.
How to get started
We also offer role-based learning paths at Automation Anywhere University for hands-on learning. For example, employees can learn how to build bots on our no-code, drag-and-drop dashboard.
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