Transient workflow is not working - workflow instance is not getting initiated in AEM 6.3

Statement: Asset update workflow was converted to Transient workflow but the transient workflow was not working.

Solution:
clear the stale workflows, please follow below steps:

1. Go to system console (http://localhost:4502/system/console)
2. Stop the following bundles
3. Adobe Granite Replication (com.day.cq.cq-replication)
4. Apache Sling Event Support (org.apache.sling.event)
5. Open crx/de
6. Go to /etc/workflow/instances, clear everything under this folder. You can also move /etc/workflow/instances under /tmp and then create a new /etc/workflow/instances folder with the exact same properties of the original /etc/workflow/instances
7. Go to /var/eventing/jobs and delete all the content under it.
8. Go to /var/replication/data and Delete all the content under it.
9. Start the bundles stopped in step 2.
10. Now try running transient workflow.