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XCurveAI

Four roles. Clear progression. Practical outcomes.

Build the AI skills your role needs.

Choose your learning path and progress from foundations to practical application. Explore the skills you will develop, the work you will produce and the courses available for your next step.

Choose your learning path

Start with your role. Each path connects practical skills, clear learning outcomes and work you can apply in your organisation.

  • Leadership & Strategy

    For executives, directors and heads of function. Make informed AI decisions, govern adoption and lead measurable change.

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  • Product Ownership & Management

    For Product Owners, Product Managers and Business Analysts. Turn customer problems into AI products you can build and evaluate.

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  • Agile Delivery & Team Enablement

    For Scrum Masters, Delivery Managers and RTEs. Coach responsible AI use and improve delivery across teams.

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  • Engineering, DevOps & Architecture

    For Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Architects. Build, deploy and operate dependable AI systems.

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Leadership & Strategy

FOUNDATIONS — AI for Business Leaders. Explain AI capabilities and limitations, distinguish useful opportunities from unsuitable applications, and prioritise business problems. Produce an AI opportunity map. Entry course: AI for CXOs and Business Leaders.

PRACTITIONER — AI Strategy, Governance & Adoption (in development). Assess readiness, build a business case, define accountability and human oversight, and plan workforce adoption. Produce an AI strategy and governance plan.

ADVANCED — Leading Enterprise AI Transformation (in development). Prioritise an AI portfolio, design an operating model, assess suppliers and measure business value. Produce an executive investment brief and 90-day roadmap.

For executives, directors and heads of function. Outcome: lead AI adoption with clear objectives, ownership, controls and measurable value.

Product Ownership & Management

FOUNDATIONS — Practical AI for Product Professionals. Identify suitable customer problems, distinguish AI from conventional automation, and define users, tasks, evidence and boundaries. Produce a one-page Enterprise AI Solution Canvas. Entry course: AI for POs and BAs: From AI Idea to Buildable Product. PRACTITIONER — AI Product Discovery & Delivery (in development). Validate assumptions, prototype a solution, define data needs and create an AI-ready backlog with acceptance criteria. Produce a validated prototype and prioritised backlog. ADVANCED — AI Product Evaluation. Build evaluation datasets, assess quality, safety, cost and latency, and design release gates and feedback loops. Produce an evaluation scorecard and improvement roadmap. Related course: AI Evals for Product Owners and Business Analysts.

For Product Owners, Product Managers and Business Analysts. Outcome: own an AI product from discovery through evaluation and improvement. Choose an entry point based on your experience; stages describe progression, not mandatory prerequisites.

Agile Delivery & Team Enablement

FOUNDATIONS — AI for Scrum Masters & Delivery Professionals (in development). Identify applications in planning, facilitation and reporting, recognise privacy risks and verify AI-generated work. Produce a team AI working agreement. PRACTITIONER — AI-Assisted Team Delivery & Coaching (in development). Design assisted workflows, improve backlog conversations and retrospectives, coach responsible use and measure effects on flow and quality. Produce a workflow and adoption experiment. ADVANCED — AI Delivery at Scale (in development). Coordinate dependencies, integrate evaluation and governance into delivery, improve planning and release readiness, and manage adoption across teams. Produce a programme delivery playbook and dashboard.

For Scrum Masters, Delivery Managers and Release Train Engineers (RTEs). Role-specific practice covers facilitation, delivery flow and cross-team planning. Outcome: improve delivery with evidence that AI helps performance while maintaining quality.

Engineering, DevOps & Architecture

FOUNDATIONS — AI-Assisted Software Engineering (in development). Apply coding assistants to implementation, testing and documentation, review generated code and protect sensitive code and data. Produce a reviewed code change with automated tests. PRACTITIONER — Building AI Applications & Agents. Implement retrieval and tool use, define permissions and human approvals, evaluate behaviour and handle failures and untrusted inputs. Produce a working AI application or bounded agent. Related course: Agentic AI for Engineering Teams. ADVANCED — Production AI Architecture & Operations (in development). Design deployment pipelines, monitor quality, security, cost and latency, and implement rollback and incident response. Produce a production architecture and operational runbook.

For Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Architects. Advanced practice branches into implementation, operations and architecture. Outcome: deliver AI systems with tested behaviour, controlled access and operational visibility.