What you will learn & do in the class:
Session 1:
Influencer Product Owner
Exercise:
- Creating an Avatar-based AI-generated video to communicate your product messages powerfully.
Learnings:
- Pitching a product idea
- Customer journey walkthrough
- Teaching topics to your team
- Onboarding new team members, …
Session 2:
Basics of AI for Product Owners
Exercise:
- Discovering the primary function of some AI tools for product management and how they work.
Learnings:
- AI, ANI, Generative AI, and AGI
- How AI systems are built
- How AI Models are trained and Tokenization
- Writing effective prompts, RAG, Fine-tuning, …
Session 3:
A framework to choose the right AI tools
Exercise:
- Creating a table of AI capabilities to see the emergence of a framework for AI tools categorization.
Learnings:
- Recognizing which AI model does what
- Access to a marketplace of AI models
- Principles for evaluating new AI capabilities (time-agnostic), …
Session 4:
Product Vision & Strategic Thinking
Exercise:
- Creating a compelling Product Vision with the 3x3 framework and the power of AI.
Learnings:
- Communicating the product's future strategies more effectively
- Making your product vision, product goal, roadmap ideas tangible
- Storytelling to convince executives/stakeholders, …
Session 5:
User Persona & Market Research
Exercise:
- Creating a user persona with AI for a specific case study.
Learnings:
- Leveraging AI to do market research
- Generating insights of the customer behaviors
- Recognizing the target audience of your product, …
Session 6:
Testing product ideas & Experimentation (Rapid Prototyping)
Exercise:
- Creating a website prototype in a few minutes with a powerful AI tool to communicate your ideas visually.
Learnings:
- Getting feedback from stakeholders/customers more effectively
- Handing over feature specs to developers precisely
- Leveraging AI to brainstorm and generate innovative ideas to experiment with, …
Session 7:
Product Backlog management & Facilitation
Exercise:
- Facilitating a product discovery interview with a customer with AI.
Learnings:
- Facilitating product-related meetings with AI
- Stakeholder management, sentiment analysis, and extracting hidden expectations
- Eliciting Product Backlog Items and Prioritizing the Product Backlog with AI
- Release Planning & Writing Release Notes, …
Session 8:
Stunning Presentation for Product Owners
Exercise:
- Creating a professional Sprint report with a powerful AI tool.
Learnings:
- Converting PowerPoint files to stunning look & feel outputs
- Tracking and presenting product metrics & insights
- Creating professional proposals
- Communicating the product performance with AI, …
Session 9:
AI Agents for Product Owners
Exercise:
- Creating an AI Agent to automatically extract user stories from support emails and add them to the Product Backlog.
Learnings:
- Understanding what AI Agents are and how to create them
- Delegating repetitive tasks to AI Agents to free up your time for more strategic work
- Increase your productivity by leveraging AI Agents, …
Session 10:
Ethical & Responsible AI for Product Owners
Exercise:
- Navigating various aspects of Ethical AI with an AI myth buster activity.
Learnings:
- Various aspects of Ethical AI: bias, fairness, transparency, accountability, and environmental impact
- AI shortages: hallucination, toxicity, and knowledge cut-off
- How your data is stored + security and data privacy
- Getting familiar with the existing AI laws and regulatory rules
- The 4D AI fluency framework, …
Course Overview
PSPO-AI Essentials is an interactive, hands-on training designed to empower Product Owners and Product Managers to understand, leverage, and apply AI in their roles. This training explores the application of AI within the various stances of a Product Owner.
In this class, students engage in discussions and exercises to explore practical uses of AI tools and techniques across each stance of a professional Product Owner. In addition, this training introduces a new stance, focusing on ethics and security, providing essential guidance on adopting AI responsibly and securely within an organization.
Through this course, attendees will gain the skills and confidence to harness AI effectively, ensuring they remain at the forefront of delivering value in an ever-evolving digital landscape. The Product Owner of tomorrow masters AI—this training ensures you are prepared for that future.
Learning Objectives
- Learn the basics of AI and how it can enhance your productivity
- Refresh your mind with preferred Product Owner stances mixed with AI potential
- Navigate AI capabilities within each stance to take you to the next level of product ownership
- Gain hands-on experience with today's leading AI tools
- Understand the ethical and security concerns of using AI
Outcomes Of The Class
Professional use of AI
You know what AI is and how to leverage it for a completely new level of product management.
Become more productive
You become faster in execution, smarter in decision-making, more data-driven, and a strategic thinker.
Prevent becoming replaceable
You learn the skills that change your label from a “Replaceable Role” to a “Hard-to-Replace Asset”.
Having a new colleague
You feel you have hired a new knowledgeable partner that is always available to help you.
New success announcement
You feel proud to announce your credible PSPO-AI Essentials certificate to your professional network.
Confidence & Power
As you are ahead of the curve and up to date, you feel confident and strong in your role.
Shine in the organization
You become a go-to person. People come to you asking their AI questions. You shine.
Carrier advancement
New job opportunities in product management that require AI skills are achievable.
AI tool advisor
For every use case, you know what AI tools are available and which one you should use. You become an AI tool advisor.
Course Audience
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Business Analysts
- Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches
- Agile Leaders
- Anyone involved in the product management process