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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

Discovery Before Build

  • Understanding why most AI deployments fail at the scoping stage
  • Treating discovery as a core engineering activity
  • Establishing time-boxes and exit criteria for the discovery phase

Reading the Workflow

  • Observing work in its actual operational context
  • Analysing process maps, handoffs, and exception paths
  • Conducting interviews with users, managers, and control functions

Qualifying Use Cases

  • Applying feasibility, value, and readiness filters
  • Scoring a portfolio of use cases rather than focusing on a single idea
  • Using evidence to justify the rejection of unsuitable use cases

Value Architecture and the Business Case

  • Defining baselines, benefits, and cost to serve
  • Selecting metrics accepted by finance and audit teams
  • Maintaining a register for risks, compliance, and dependencies

Commitments, Gates, and Handover

  • Drafting scope statements, assumptions, and exclusions
  • Defining stage gates and kill criteria
  • Preparing a handover brief for the build team

Requirements

  • Background in a customer-facing technical or delivery role
  • Knowledge of business processes in at least one industry
  • Basic proficiency in spreadsheets and document creation for modelling and reporting

Audience

  • Forward deployed engineers and solution consultants
  • Presales and solution architects
  • Product owners and delivery leads involved in AI engagements
  • Transformation leads evaluating an AI portfolio

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