What to automate first when everything looks automatable

A criterion for prioritising automations: frequency, time, cost of error and failure detection. Which candidates pay off and which to postpone.

Frequency times time times cost of error, plus the factor nobody puts on the list: who notices when it breaks. What usually wins, what to postpone, and what to fix first.

Category: Automation

The question that leads nowhere

Frequency x time x cost of error

The fourth factor: who notices when it breaks

What usually wins, and what usually should not

What to fix before automating anything

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