AI for POs and BAs: From AI Idea to Buildable Product

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Turn vague AI requests into clear, one-page proposals your organisation can assess. A live, three-hour hands-on workshop for Product Owners, Business Analysts and delivery leads, taught by Madhusudhan Konda.

Level: Foundation
Duration: 3 hours
Delivery: Live virtual
Language: English

Suitable for: IndividualsOrganisations

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Overview

Turn vague AI requests into proposals your organisation can actually approve.

Enterprise AI projects often stall because nobody has defined what the AI should do, for whom, and where it must stop. This hands-on workshop helps Product Owners and Business Analysts turn an AI idea into a precise, assessable proposal.

Madhusudhan Konda works through the Atlas case, then you apply the method to an AI idea from your own work. You leave with a one-page Enterprise AI Solution Canvas covering the user, task, evidence, boundaries, oversight and a bounded pilot decision.

Instructor: Madhusudhan Konda, AI and Innovation Lead, author and speaker, with more than 25 years of software and AI experience.

Live workshop on Zoom, in small groups, with feedback as you apply each step.

Part of the Product Ownership & Management learning path — Foundations. Explore the full progression and practical outcomes. Next, consider AI Evals for Product Owners and Business Analysts when you are ready to evaluate an AI feature.

What you will learn

Decide whether an AI idea is worth building: identify the underlying enterprise AI pattern and test whether AI adds real value.
Specify the user, AI task, permitted evidence and responsibility boundaries in an Enterprise AI Solution Canvas, with acceptance criteria suited to AI.
Design human oversight, evaluation, refusals, citations and escalation so someone catches errors before they cause harm.
Shape and cost a bounded pilot, consider ongoing costs and record a decision to proceed, sequence, reshape, park or stop.

Who it is for

Product Owners and Business Analysts turning AI initiatives into buildable products; delivery and product leads in banks, insurers, the public sector and other regulated organisations; anyone who writes requirements.

Prerequisites

No coding or data science background needed. Bring one live or planned AI idea from your work to use throughout the workshop.

What's included

Live workshop, certificate, ebook and reusable templatesIncludes the Canvas, completion certificate, ebook, participant worksheet and Atlas worked example.

Course outline

10:00 Welcome; 10:15 Explore: is it worth solving?1 topic
Topics
- Choose your AI idea; explore six enterprise AI patterns and test AI value. Break at 10:55.
11:05 Specify: user, task, evidence, boundary1 topic
Topics
- Practise on Atlas, then complete the Enterprise AI Solution Canvas for your own idea.
11:50 Control: when it is wrong2 topics
Topics
- Oversight, refusals, escalation and testing an AI product.
- Break at 12:25.
12:30 Deliver; 12:50 Next steps and Q&A1 topic
Topics
- Shape and cost a bounded pilot, record your decision, then discuss next steps and questions.

Questions

Course

Do I need technical skills?

No. These courses are for people who shape and specify work, not people who write code. You need to be comfortable with backlogs, user stories and working with delivery teams.

Which course should I take first?

Start with AI for Product Owners and Business Analysts, which covers turning AI ideas into work your team can build. AI Evals then goes deeper into checking the quality of AI features once they exist.

Can my whole product team attend together?

Yes. Any course can be run privately for your team, using your own product area as the case study.