During a Test Drive, I began by working in Blueprint, progressively refining the design from an initial Blueprint to a High-Fidelity Blueprint. Once finalized, the Blueprint was imported into the Pega Platform to build a fully functional application.

After completing the development and configuration, I exported the workflow(s) back into Blueprint in order to run the Blueprint Estimator. During this step, I discovered that all integration data objects were defaulting their system of record to Pega (Local). As a result, I had to manually add the appropriate external systems of record and perform the required mappings so that the estimator could accurately identify the number of integrations and assess their complexity.

This is an important consideration to keep in mind when transitioning between Blueprint and the Pega Platform, as we had to do several times.