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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

Discovery Preceding Development

  • Understanding why the majority of AI projects fail at the scoping stage
  • Treating discovery as a core engineering function
  • Establishing time boundaries and exit criteria for discovery phases

Analyzing Workflows

  • Observing tasks in their actual operational context
  • Creating process maps, identifying handoffs, and tracing exception paths
  • Conducting interviews with end users, managers, and oversight functions

Validating Use Cases

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

Value Frameworks and Business Justification

  • Defining baselines, benefits, and cost-to-serve metrics
  • Selecting metrics that satisfy finance and audit standards
  • Maintaining registers for risks, compliance, and dependencies

Agreements, Milestones and Transition

  • Defining scope statements, assumptions, and exclusions
  • Implementing stage gates and stop-work criteria
  • Preparing handover documentation for the development team

Requirements

  • Experience in technical or delivery roles with client interaction
  • Understanding of business processes within at least one industry sector
  • Competence in basic spreadsheet and document creation for modeling and reporting

Target Audience

  • Forward deployed engineers and solution consultants
  • Presales engineers and solution architects
  • Product owners and delivery leads involved in AI projects
  • Transformation leaders evaluating AI portfolios

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