Course : Managing a machine learning project: the role of the product owner

Manage a machine learning project using best business practices

Practical course - 3d - 21h00 - Ref. IAY
Price : 2360 CHF E.T.

Managing a machine learning project: the role of the product owner

Manage a machine learning project using best business practices



AI is a powerful "technology" that impacts all business processes, transforms organizations and will change the way we work, providing a lever for profitability and innovation. These transformations can only be achieved with business teams who understand AI, its challenges and best practices. This in-depth but non-technical course enables product managers, project managers and product owners to turn AI into a lever for creating value and profitability. You will acquire the skills needed to lead a project using machine learning.


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Ref. IAY
  3d - 21h00
2360 CHF E.T.




AI is a powerful "technology" that impacts all business processes, transforms organizations and will change the way we work, providing a lever for profitability and innovation. These transformations can only be achieved with business teams who understand AI, its challenges and best practices. This in-depth but non-technical course enables product managers, project managers and product owners to turn AI into a lever for creating value and profitability. You will acquire the skills needed to lead a project using machine learning.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Identify business issues that can benefit from ML (machine learning)
Prioritize use cases
Identify the right model for the right problem
Structuring an ML product/project approach: from data preparation to production launch
Analyze model performance from a business perspective
Understand the challenges and risks associated with this type of project

Intended audience
Business project managers, product managers, product owners.

Prerequisites
Master project management.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Theoretical presentations, group case studies, quizzes, demonstrations by the trainer, followed by hands-on practice to help you consolidate your knowledge.
Teaching methods
Active teaching, exchanges with AI experts.

Course schedule

1
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)

  • The challenges of AI.
  • Overview of AI (rules VS ML, hybrid systems...).
  • Machine learning: concept and use cases.
  • Regression, classification and clustering.
  • Artificial neural networks/deep learning.
  • NLP: principles and applications.
  • Computer vision: principles and applications.
Exercise
Ice breaker to get you started.

2
AI use cases

  • Presentation of corporate use cases.
  • Selection of use cases for analysis.
Exercise
Business case analysis to determine whether ML is the right solution. Which approach to use?

3
Preparing for a machine learning project

  • Challenges and risks.
  • Skills required.
  • Evaluate and prepare your data.
  • Agility for ML projects.
Hands-on work
AI project: business canvas. Choose a problem to be addressed by ML. Fill in the canvas.

4
ML project: value creation

  • From bread and butter to value creation.
  • Customer-centric" approach, design thinking" approach.
  • The challenges of integrating AI models into business processes.

5
ML algorithms

  • Presentation.
  • Modeling a problem in the machine learning sense: input/output.
  • Main characteristic algorithms.
  • Model hyperparameters.

6
End-to-end approach to the ML project

  • Overfitting/underfitting: what are the solutions?
  • Who does what in an ML project?
  • With what methodology?
  • From data acquisition to industrialization (illustrated by a use case).
  • Data issues: quantity, quality, non-representativeness, focus on "imbalanced dataset".
  • Features engineering: irrelevent features, how to select, extract and create new features.
  • Data/algorithm issues, biases, privacy.
Hands-on work
Presentation of use cases: classification, clustering, NLP/classification. Select a use case, prepare your dataset. Visualize data. Present relevant "features".

7
Creating machine learning models

  • The AI ecosystem.
  • Overview of solutions, players and suppliers, existing online services from GAFAMs and start-ups.
  • Python language, libraries :
  • Data processing (NumPy, Pandas, matplotlib, etc.).
  • From ML (Keras, scikit-learn...).
  • From DL (Tensorflow).
Hands-on work
Implementation of an ML project and step-by-step monitoring of the project with the help of a data scientist coach (Preparation and visualization of data. Feature selection. Model training and evaluation. Performance measurement. Creation of a code-free ML model).

8
Business valuation issues

  • Value creation.
  • The challenges of evaluation.
  • Performance.
  • ROI, return on investment.

9
Project and organization practices

  • Synthesis of best practices from a business perspective.
  • Organizing skills within a data-driven organization.


Customer reviews
4,2 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
BÉNÉDICTE G.
23/03/26
5 / 5

Très riche très bon contenu et très pédagogique
ARTHUR A.
23/03/26
4 / 5

Un sujet par nature conceptuel et théorique, mais le cours aide à mieux appréhender ces notions.
ALEXANDRE B.
23/03/26
4 / 5

Éviter de montrer le code source pour se concentrer sur des démonstrations concrètes du fonctionnement des algorithmes.Augmenter le nombre de démos afin d’ illustrer plus efficacement nos propos et la logique des algorithmes présentés.



Publication date : 07/16/2024


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From 4 to 6 May 2026
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From 8 to 10 July 2026
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From 14 to 16 September 2026
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From 23 to 25 November 2026
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2026 : 4 May, 8 July, 14 Sep., 23 Nov.