It Can Write the Story. It Can’t Decide Whether to Build It.
AI is genuinely good at turning a rough need into a readable story. What it cannot do is decide what matters, and confusing those two is how a backlog fills up with well-written work nobody needed.
Completing this class earns you the Scrum Alliance® AI for Product Owners Microcredential.
Faster Drafting, Same Judgement
Most of a Product Owner’s week is drafting, rewriting, summarising and explaining. All of that gets faster with AI, and none of it is the part of the job that decides whether the product succeeds.
This is a working day on using the tools for the first kind of work while keeping a firm hold on the second — ending in a prompting lab against a real backlog.
- Which Product Owner responsibilities AI supports, and which are yours alone
- Generating and refining user stories and acceptance criteria
- Organising a backlog against customer needs and business goals
- Risk, ethics and algorithmic bias in product decisions
- A prompting lab on real work, not toy examples
You leave with prompts that work on your own backlog.
In development
No dates yet. Join the wait list to hear when they open.
What you'll learn
- Which Product Owner responsibilities benefit from AI and which require human judgement
- Prompt engineering for scrum events and artifacts
- Generating and then critically refining user stories and acceptance criteria
- Using AI to organise a backlog against customer need and business goal
- Reviewing risks: ethical concerns, algorithmic bias, and confident wrong answers
- Where AI-assisted discovery misleads, and how to notice
Who this is for
- Product Owners and product managers
- CSPO, A-CSPO and CSP-PO holders adding a skill
- Business analysts and project managers who own a backlog
- Scrum Masters supporting a Product Owner adopting these tools
What you get
- 4 hours of live, high-engagement training
- A prompt library built in the lab against your own backlog
- Your Scrum Alliance® microcredential badge, which doesn’t expire
- A 2-year Scrum Alliance® membership
- Discounted access to all future Artisan training events
The fine print
Agenda
One day, ending in the lab. Bring a backlog you’re unhappy with:
The job, split
Focus: Drafting versus deciding
- The Product Owner role, broken into its parts
- What is synthesis and what is judgement
- The decisions that must not be delegated to a model
Stories and criteria
Focus: Generation, then refinement
- Prompting for a first draft worth editing
- Acceptance criteria that describe behaviour
- Editing generated work critically rather than accepting it
The backlog
Focus: Ordering against something real
- Feeding customer need and business goal into the prompt
- Where AI ordering quietly encodes the wrong priority
- Keeping the reasoning visible to the team
Prompting lab
Focus: Your own work
- Applying the framework to a real backlog
- Critique in pairs
- Building the library you take away
One day, live. Times are Central and are confirmed when the cohort is scheduled.
Training formats
Live and instructor-led, in person or remote. A microcredential is short enough to take in a day and specific enough that a day is the right amount of time.
A student handbook you keep, with the exercises and room for notes
The Scrum Alliance® badge on completion, and a 2-year membership with it
Risk-free guarantee
Satisfaction is guaranteed. If, for any reason, you are dissatisfied with the class by the lunch break, let us know and we’ll refund your class fees. No questions will be asked.
Prerequisites
None. Some familiarity with Scrum will help, but the class assumes nothing.
Frequently asked questions
When does this run?
It doesn’t yet. This class is on the schedule to be built, and this page exists so you can say you want it.
Tell me you’re interested and I’ll write to you when the first cohort has dates — before it goes on the public schedule.
How is this different from AI for Scrum Masters?
Same tools, different job. This one is about backlog work, stories, and product decisions; the Scrum Master class is about facilitation, events and team support.
If you do both jobs, take both — they overlap on prompting craft and nothing else.