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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

Discovery Prior to Development

  • Understanding why scoping errors are the primary cause of AI deployment failures.
  • Viewing discovery as a core engineering activity.
  • Establishing time boundaries and exit criteria for discovery phases.

Interpreting Workflows

  • Observing work in its actual operational environment.
  • Analyzing process maps, handoffs, and exception handling paths.
  • Conducting interviews with users, managers, and control function stakeholders.

Validating Use Cases

  • Applying filters for feasibility, value, and readiness.
  • Scoring a portfolio of ideas rather than focusing on a single concept.
  • Using evidence to reject unsuitable use cases.

Value Architecture and Business Justification

  • Defining baselines, benefits, and costs to serve.
  • Selecting metrics acceptable to finance and audit teams.
  • Maintaining registers for risks, compliance, and dependencies.

Commitments, Milestones, and Transition

  • Drafting scope statements, assumptions, and exclusions.
  • Setting stage gates and criteria for project termination.
  • Creating a handover brief for the development team.

Requirements

  • Professional experience in a customer-facing technical or delivery capacity.
  • Knowledge of business processes within at least one industry sector.
  • Proficiency with spreadsheets and documentation tools for modeling and reporting.

Target Audience

  • Forward deployed engineers and solution consultants.
  • Presales and solution architects.
  • Product owners and delivery leads managing AI projects.
  • Transformation leads evaluating AI portfolios.

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