Overview:
A working session on project and operational documentation in the era of AI-generated drafts. We cover the four document types that carry real weight - Standard Operating Procedures, requirements, decision records, and audit trails - and the standards each must meet to survive scrutiny. The session is opinionated about the human author's role: AI drafts; humans decide, sign, and defend. Drawn from the EPM Doctrine's view of documentation as evidence, not paperwork.
Why you should Attend:
When a regulator, an auditor, or a successor asks who decided what and why, 'the AI drafted it' is not an answer. Teams are filling shared drives with AI-generated documents nobody has read, signed off on, or can defend. The first time one of those documents matters, the gap will be obvious - and expensive. The fix is not to ban AI from documentation. It is to do documentation properly, with AI as a drafting tool and humans as the accountable authors.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Why most project documentation fails its real test - and how AI both helps and hurts
- SOPs: structure, granularity, and how to keep them alive instead of letting them rot
- Requirements documentation: separating what the business needs from what the AI suggested
- Decision records: capturing the decision, the alternatives, the reasoning, and the dissent
- Audit trails: what regulators, auditors, and successors actually need to find - and where
- Using AI as a drafting tool without surrendering authorship or accountability
- Review and signoff practices that work when half the prose was generated
- Document hygiene: versioning, retention, retirement, and the AI-specific risks of each
Who Will Benefit:
- Project Managers and Program Managers
- Business Analysts and Requirements Engineers
- Technical Writers and Documentation Leads
- Operations Managers responsible for SOPs
- Compliance Officers and Internal Auditors
- Quality Assurance Managers
- PMO Directors and Knowledge Management Leads