Use AI to Define What Success Actually Looks Like

Let’s keep the momentum going! Now that you’ve created a project vision statement (if you missed it, catch up here: Define Your Vision with AI), it’s time to define what success actually looks like.

This week’s prompt helps you do exactly that—with a little help from your AI tool of choice.

Step 2: Define Success Criteria

📌 Prompt:
"I am defining measurable success criteria for my project [insert project vision statement]. Provide:

1. Three specific success indicators using the structure '< % increase or decrease of what >'.

2. Industry best practices for defining success in similar projects.

Here are the details:
• Success Indicator 1: [describe what metric you want to increase/decrease]
• Success Indicator 2: [describe another key performance metric]
• Success Indicator 3: [describe another success metric]

If I don’t know how to answer, ask me things like this to gather the information you need:
• What does success look like for this project?
• Are there key metrics that matter most to leadership or stakeholders?
• What improvements or efficiencies are expected as a result?"

⚡ Quick Tip: The more specific you can be in those bracketed sections, the more useful and tailored your AI-generated results will be.

If you leave them blank, no problem—your tool will guide you with follow-up questions to help fill in the gaps.

Haven’t downloaded the template yet?
You’ll want to add your success criteria to the same document we started in the previous post.
👉 Get the Project Vision Template

Next week, we’ll move on to defining your project's core team and how to use AI to clarify who needs to be involved (and how).

Until then,

Rebecca