Practical AI for Product Owners and Business Analysts

Your job is not to believe in AI or to doubt it. Your job is to specify it.

Somewhere in your organisation, someone is saying "we should use AI for this". The demo impresses the room. Months later, the project stalls at sign-off. The model rarely fails. The translation does: nobody turned the ambition into something precise.

That translation work belongs to Product Owners and Business Analysts. This book gives you a hands-on method for doing it.

What you will learn

• How to separate real AI opportunities from demo-shaped ones
• How to build a business case on evidence, not enthusiasm
• How to write requirements for systems that do not always give the same answer
• How to judge whether your data and documents are really ready
• How to choose between search, RAG, assistants and agents, and govern them
• How to evaluate beyond "90% accuracy" and run pilots that end in a decision

What is inside

13 chapters that follow one running case, the Atlas Policy Assistant, from first idea to funded pilot. Every chapter ends with an exercise and a piece of the Enterprise AI Solution Canvas. Appendix D gives you worked evidence templates you can use on your own work the next day.

What you get

• The full book as a PDF, with clickable contents and links
• The full book as an EPUB, for Kindle, Apple Books and Kobo
• Free editable templates for every evidence sheet and the Enterprise AI Solution Canvas, from PracticalAIForAll.com

Who this book is for

Product Owners, Business Analysts, product managers and delivery leads working on AI in banks, insurers, the public sector and other regulated organisations. You do not need a technical background.

About the author

I am Madhusudhan Konda. I have spent more than twenty-five years building software and AI for banks and organisations such as Credit Suisse, UBS, Deutsche Bank, BP, EBRD and others.

I wrote this book for the Product Owners and Business Analysts who turn AI ambition into products. Join my training cohorts where I train you to do this work.