Your RPA development team can include anyone from non-technical business users (citizen developers) to trained IT specialists. All that's necessary is the willingness to learn, although logical thinking skills are an advantage. More experienced developers can assist the team by mentoring.

Beginners will, however, need the time and opportunity to get familiar with the basics, such as the Studio recorder, and advanced commands like keyboard shortcuts, input keys, and so on. Advanced developers can jump right into learning more advanced commands, and upskilling on technical skills like JavaScript, Python, .NET, and so on.

Extensive training material is available from the Nintex Academy and in the Nintex Community.

As your development team becomes more familiar with RPA, they should begin documenting the automation best practices that are relevant to your applications and systems used in your business processes.

Ideally, you should set up the following two automation environments with identical settings, installed applications and versions, folder access rights, and so on:

Environment	Description
Development	Used for all development and resolution of identified issues. This environment should also be used for unit testing, wizard integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Production	Used for live RPA operation.
Playground	A third, optional environment can be used as a playground for RPA brainstorming.

For more information about this topic, review the following training material from Nintex Academy: RPA Admin Training.

Design and develop your RPA automation and workflows by following best practices and using additional resources as described in Designing an RPA Solution, and as covered during training sessions.