AI that not only answers but works
Most know AI as a clever chatbot: you ask a question and get an answer. But that is already yesterday. Modern AI not only answers, it works. It reads your documents, operates your programs, writes, checks its own output, and delivers. It carries out an entire task from the idea to the finished result, just like a well-rehearsed team would.
Whether good work is really produced in the end is not a coincidence. It is determined by four drivers und eins process, which leads each phase cleanly, from requirements through tests and verification to acceptance. Those who understand both see immediately: AI is no longer a toy today, but real value creation. Very few companies have worked this way so far. That is exactly where your advantage lies.
Die vier Treiber
Four things determine whether good work comes from an AI, just like with a machine and a human. They determine the first, the goal, in conversation with us. When the other three are given, the AI takes care of the rest, and you only decide where it matters.
Four drivers collectively determine the result. If one fails, the quality tips.
Order → Prompt and specification
The goal and the guidelines
What should come out, and what must not happen. We determine this driver in the conversation.
- The goal in one sentence, the actual requirement
- Acceptance criteria: when is the result considered correct
- Architecture, rules, and test specifications as files
- Examples, counterexamples, and clear boundaries
- Priorities and order of steps
Tools → Tools
What the AI acts with, instead of just talking
The hands and eyes. Without tools, a model remains an advisor; with them, it becomes a collaborator.
- Read and write files and folders
- Querying and filling databases
- Web und Browser bedienen
- Controlling the screen for programs without an interface
- E-Mail, Teams, Kalender
- Spezialisierte Systeme wie SAP, SharePoint, Power BI
- Creating, testing, and deploying code
Wissen → Unternehmenswissen
Woraus die KI schöpft
Damit sie basierend auf dem eigenen Wissen des Unternehmens antworten kann und nichts erfinden muss.
- Company folder: documents, manuals, presentations
- Emails und Sitzungsprotokolle
- Technische Zeichnungen und Spezifikationen
- Standards, Vorschriften und Richtlinien
- Stammdaten und Datenbanken
- Durchsuchbar, mit Quellenangabe
Budget → Modell und Rechenaufwand
Wie viel Rechenaufwand eine Aufgabe erhält
Speed versus quality, consciously chosen. A short question does not require a large model.
- Kleines, schnelles Modell für einfache Aufgaben
- Großes Modell für schwierige Aufgaben
- More or less thinking, depending on difficulty
- Lokal auf deiner eigenen Hardware oder in der Cloud
- Kosten pro Durchlauf, sichtbar in Zahlen
Der gesamte Prozess
Not just code. An AI follows the same arc as a well-rehearsed team, from requirements through tests and reviews to release and acceptance. Each phase has its technical term and role, and each is fully executed by the AI.
Jede Rollengruppe ist besetzt, nicht beansprucht:
- Produkt & Management Phases
- Area of expertise Phases
- Entwicklung Phases
- Qualität & Testing Phases
- Dokumentation & Support1 Phase
- Betrieb & DevOps Phases
- 1Idea and assignmentKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffKickoff
Produkt & Management - 2AnforderungenKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffURS, Anforderungskatalog
Area of expertise - 3SpezifikationKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffFunctional and data specification
Area of expertise - 4PlanungKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffBacklog, Sprint, Refinement
Produkt & Management - 5programmingKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffImplementation
Entwicklung - 6VersionskontrolleKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffGit
Entwicklung - 7Writing TestsKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffUnit, Integration, E2E
Qualität & Testing - 8Test runKI abgeschlossen
Fachbegriffautomated test run
Qualität & Testing - 9Review and approvalKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffCode review, gates
Qualität & Testing - 10Feedback and bug fixingKI abgeschlossen
Fachbegriffiterative
Entwicklung - 11traceabilityKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffTraceability matrix
Qualität & Testing - 12documentationKI abgeschlossen
Fachbegrifftechnical and user
Dokumentation & Support - 13build pipelineKI abgeschlossen
FachbegriffCI
Betrieb & DevOps - 14release and deliveryKI abgeschlossen
Fachbegriffdeployment
Betrieb & DevOps - 15acceptanceKI abgeschlossen
Fachbegriffacceptance protocol
Produkt & Management - 16operations and feedbackKI abgeschlossen
Fachbegriffoperations
Betrieb & DevOps
And in your company?
This very process is implemented by TB-Software for SMEs: from supporting individual steps to fully taking over entire processes, locally, verified, with clear guidelines.
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