5-Day Free Course · Product

Product Management That Actually Ships

Discovery, prioritization, roadmapping, metrics, and working with engineering teams. The PM skills that turn good ideas into products people use — built from how product management works at companies that ship, not how it's described in business school.

5 days self-paced
Free forever
Text + external video refs
No signup required
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No videos. On purpose.

This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on product management you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.

Practitioner-tested, not vendor marketing

This course is built by engineers who ship product management systems for a living. It reflects how these tools actually behave in production — not how the documentation describes them.

Code you can run, not demos to watch

Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. The goal is understanding through doing, not passive reading.

Links to the canonical sources

Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on product management available.

Completes in 5 one-hour sessions

Each day is designed to finish in about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No calendar commitment, no live classes.

The 5 Days

Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.

01Day One

Discovery: Finding Problems Worth Solving

Customer interviews, JTBD framework, distinguishing real pain from noise, the five whys applied to product discovery, and how to synthesize interview insights into actionable opportunity areas.

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02Day Two

Prioritization and Roadmapping

RICE, ICE, and opportunity-solution trees. The difference between a roadmap and a feature list. Quarterly planning with outcome-based OKRs vs output-based milestones and why the framing matters.

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03Day Three

Writing Specs That Engineers Respect

PRDs vs one-pagers, user stories with real acceptance criteria, edge cases that matter, the difference between requirements and solutions, and how to get engineers excited about the problem rather than annoyed by the spec.

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04Day Four

Metrics, Analytics, and A/B Testing

Defining the north star metric, leading vs lagging indicators, funnel analysis, cohort retention, A/B test design (minimum detectable effect, sample size), and the metrics anti-patterns that mislead product teams.

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05Day Five

Stakeholder Management and Shipping

Communicating with engineering, design, sales, and executives simultaneously. Status updates that reduce interruptions, post-launch learnings, and the PM behaviors that earn trust from cross-functional teams.

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The best external videos on this topic.

Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.

Read the source.

The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.

Three kinds of people read this.

Engineers Transitioning to Product

You've been closest to the product for years. This course gives you the vocabulary and frameworks to make that transition credibly.

Founders Building Their First Product

Founders are PMs by default. This course gives you the discovery and prioritization tools to avoid building things nobody wants.

Designers and Marketers Adding PM Skills

Design and marketing already share 80% of the PM skillset. This course closes the gap with the frameworks and tools that round out the product skill set.

Want to Go Deeper In Person?

The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers product management and AI product strategy in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).

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