The guts – managing data, infrastructure, and ongoing maintenance

Now that we’ve covered product and people alignment at a high level, we’ll examine the various areas that will impact the work of an AI PM once you’re in the flow of managing your product on an ongoing basis. Understanding the ongoing technical needs, compliance, and risk management involved with an AI product will help curb surprises that may arise downstream, particularly if your stakeholders aren’t aware of what AI transformation will mean.

Infrastructure and data

The most obvious area that will change will relate to the infrastructural and data requirements to support an AI system. In many cases, you’ll be using historical data to help make projections and forecasts, optimizing current data to offer ranks and recommendations, or creating profiles to identify anomalous behavior. All the models that will be used to support these activities will have to be trained...