Understand How to Inventory and Manage Your AI Workflows¶
| Course | Claude for Builders: AI Workflows and Product Prototyping |
| Session | Session 3: Workflow Deconstruction |
| Module | Deconstruct and Manage Your AI Workflows |
| Type | Live |
Learn why workflow inventories are the foundation of AI operational control — and how the three-level hierarchy (Business Process → Workflow → Building Block) organizes everything you build. You'll understand how Process Guides, SOPs, and Building Blocks connect into a navigable system, and see the hierarchy in action through a real course development registry. This conceptual foundation prepares you for the next project, where you'll build your own AI Operations Registry.
Objectives¶
- Explain why workflow inventories matter for AI operational control — leaders can't manage AI-first processes they haven't mapped
- Distinguish between business processes, workflows, and building blocks as three levels of an operations hierarchy — strategic, operational, and tactical
- Identify the artifact types that document each level — Process Guides (when/why), SOPs (how to execute), and Building Blocks (prompts, skills, agents, context)
- Describe how a registry links these levels into a living system that enables impact analysis, reuse tracking, and gap identification