Which SDLC Environment should Citizen Developers connect to?

[savantsa (Surya Avantsa)]

Which SDLC environment should Citizen Developers typically be connecting to? A Dev environment because they are develop, or production environment because they deal with everything in production by default?

Normally you would connect RPA Developers to a Dev environment which is where you would provision Automation Developer licenses etc. Their machines/templates would be in the DEV environment for this reason too.

But the citizen developers pose a unique situation in that they are given access to the StudioX software, where they build automations that never go through the DEV to Test to Production lifecycle. They run their automations directly on production applications, (hoping they do it right) So the question is where do you provision their X licenses, their machine templates and other artifacts if any?

[sangeethaneelavannan1 (Sangeetha Neelavannan)]

@savantsa

So the question is where do you provision their X licenses, their machine templates and other artifacts if any?

Automation Hub - Understanding the Citizen Developer Flow

[savantsa (Surya Avantsa)]

Sorry, but that article talks about automation hub. It does not address my specific question.

[sangeethaneelavannan1 (Sangeetha Neelavannan)]

They do have automation cloud account to manage the licence, orchestrator and everything.

[savantsa (Surya Avantsa)]

Right. Now can we come to my question? If you don’t mind.

—Surya