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	RPA Development Process	Centralized	Federated
1	Request for Automation All requestors will contact their Mission Area Business Relationship Manager (BRM) to complete Part A of the Process Assessment Intake Form to be assessed by the USDA CoE Governance Board as an initial request for automation Captures the opportunity Explains USDA RPA process	✓	✓
2	Evaluation and Prioritization Requestors complete and Process Assessment form (Parts A and Part B); CoE Leadership Team completes evaluation and provides estimated LOE, prioritization, and estimated costs to CoE Executive Committee for vote to proceed Documents process key elements Identifies reuse opportunities, captures ROI estimates	✓	✓ **Note: RFQ, LOE between customer and development team of choice
3	Agreement to Proceed Upon approval CoE Governance Board provides estimated LOE, prioritization, and estimated costs to requestor for agreement to proceed Agreement to proceed Cost and LOE estimates	✓	✓
4	CoE Process Definition CoE Development Team performs detailed process walkthrough Detailed process capture used to determine design Formal agreement on outcomes	✓	Regular Checkpoint with CoE
5	CoE Development CoE Development Team builds the automation RPA solution is created Technical Implementation preparation	✓	Customer Development
6	CoE Reviews and Testing Customer/Requestor performs user acceptance test (UAT) Internal testing Technical implementation preparation	✓	Regular Checkpoint with CoE
7	Development, Validation, and Code CoE deploys automation to Dev, Pre-Prod, and Quality Reviewer validates code Code Review Move to Pre-Prod and Validate	✓	Customer deploys their automation to Dev, Pre-Prod and validates code
8	Production and Validation Automation is deployed to production by the CoE Development Team Move to production Finalize all documentation	✓	Customer deploys their automation to production
9	Operation and Maintenance Automation is monitored by the USDA CoE Governance Board Transfer to O&M Track ROI	✓	Customers manage their automations following CoE standards