Develop performance metrics or standards related to information technology
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Producing the draft is the single thing current models are best at, and it needs no integration at all: a prompt and a couple of reference documents are enough. A person still edits it and takes responsibility for what goes out.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Drafting and content production |
| Jobs that do it | 11 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment (4.A.3.b.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 11 occupations that perform it.
- Identify appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and report key metrics from digital campaigns.
- Develop performance standards, and evaluate work in light of established standards.
- Develop standards and guidelines for the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
- Create and enforce database development standards.
- Select methods, techniques, or criteria for data warehousing evaluative procedures.
- Determine system performance standards.
- Develop or specify standards, methods, or procedures to determine product quality or release readiness.
- Develop Web site performance metrics.
- Develop, document, or maintain standards, best practices, or system usage procedures.
- Develop information security standards and best practices.
- Establish functional or system standards to address operational requirements, quality requirements, and design constraints.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for drafting and content production, and what it costs.
Drafting needs no tools, no integration and no platform. One $20 assistant and two reference documents beat any agent builder here, and every extra thing in this stack is cost with nothing behind it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Generalist agents
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
11 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Computer and Information Research Scientists
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
- Data Warehousing Specialists
- Database Administrators
- Database Architects
- Document Management Specialists
- Information Security Engineers
- Search Marketing Strategists
- Software Developers
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
- Web Administrators
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Develop technical specifications for products or operations”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.