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This! The point of automation is rarely saving time. The point of automation is increasing quality.
It can be a data quality, it can be mitigating a production risk, can be avoiding regression.
Heck even unit tests are automation (you may just manually test your code once and call the day).
I am not saying that automation is always good, but the evaluation should be
Then you do (3)*3 - (1) *3 - (2). Is it positive? You do, is it negative you? You don’t. The more it’s positive the higher the priority of doing.
Why the *3? The first because the expected cost of automation is always massively underestimated The second because it takes multiple times something goes wrong till the decision is reconsidered 🙂
Why 1 year? Because generally the task to automatize changes or disappear