ASSESS
Verify the workflow, economics, authority, interfaces, data, risk, ownership, and build/no-build decision.
AAS-3A · Managed Automation Operations
Automation Systems Stewardship
Scheduled technical stewardship for an existing automation estate: architecture review, lifecycle maintenance, dependency risk, telemetry review, cost, incidents, and improvement planning.
ENGINEERING SCOPE
What is included.
- Monthly estate review
- Dependency and lifecycle register
- Incident and risk review
- Architecture guidance
- Quarterly improvement roadmap
ACCEPTANCE & EVIDENCE
What proves completion.
- Monthly health receipt
- Maintenance ledger
- Risk disposition
- Roadmap history
SYSTEM BOUNDARY
What is not silently included.
Software work fails when assumptions are allowed to become scope. Every external system, credential boundary, environment, service level, dataset, user population, support duty, and acceptance test must be named.
- 24/7 response
- Unlimited development
- Major new systems
- Software and hosting charges
SPECIFY
Freeze the accepted boundary, contracts, states, exceptions, service objectives, tests, rollout, and rollback.
BUILD & INTEGRATE
Implement source, configuration, infrastructure, interfaces, controls, telemetry, and documentation as one traceable change.
VERIFY & RELEASE
Exercise functional, integration, security, resilience, recovery, and acceptance tests before production authority.
OPERATE & TRANSFER
Stabilize the service, transfer ownership, establish runbooks and lifecycle duties, and issue the evidence closeout.
Put the actual workflow and production boundary on the table.
No credentials are requested. The assessment creates a durable engineering record and does not authorize access, code, or deployment.
Assess Automation Systems Stewardship