Version Automations Like Small Products
Add ownership and change history to spreadsheet automations.
The automation move: Treat important workbook automations as maintained assets with owners and change notes. Why it works ICAEW's spreadsheet principles emphasize clarity, documentation, review, and control. In automation work, that means treating the workbook like a small product. It has users, inputs, releases, defects, and maintenance. A change note is not bureaucracy; it is the cheapest way to preserve intent after the author forgets or leaves. The mechanism is recoverability. When a query, macro, or structured table changes, reviewers need to know what changed, why it changed, who approved it, and how it was tested. Without that history, every…
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