Course · 8 chapters
Build Like a Product Engineer
The practicum — carry one real problem from customer evidence to a shipped, measured outcome with agents doing the typing: business literacy, customer discovery, specs agents can build, orchestration and verification, keeping your edge, and proving impact in business terms
What you'll be able to do
- A short orientation — what this practicum is, what you bring to it, and where to start.
- The contract, the prerequisites, and the real problem you will carry through all seven chapters — from customer evidence to a shipped, measured outcome.
- Working business literacy for engineers — what your last feature actually cost, unit economics on a napkin, and the one metric your team moves.
- Discovery for engineers — how to run a 30-minute call that surfaces real problems, not polite opinions.
- The spec is your primary artifact now — one page, checkable criteria, and a two-run diff test that turns every divergence into a fix before it reaches a session.
- Delegation patterns, parallel sessions without chaos, and the verification gates war stories teach — built into one runbook that compounds with every failure.
What's inside
- 1Build Like a Product Engineer: Start Here
A short orientation — what this practicum is, what you bring to it, and where to start.
- 2Pick Your Problem
The contract, the prerequisites, and the real problem you will carry through all seven chapters — from customer evidence to a shipped, measured outcome.
- 3Read the Business Like a Codebase
Working business literacy for engineers — what your last feature actually cost, unit economics on a napkin, and the one metric your team moves.
- 4Talk to Customers
Discovery for engineers — how to run a 30-minute call that surfaces real problems, not polite opinions.
- 5Write Specs Agents Can Build
The spec is your primary artifact now — one page, checkable criteria, and a two-run diff test that turns every divergence into a fix before it reaches a session.
- 6Orchestrate and Verify
Delegation patterns, parallel sessions without chaos, and the verification gates war stories teach — built into one runbook that compounds with every failure.
- 7Keep Your Edge
What to keep doing by hand, on purpose. Deliberate practice on genuinely hard problems and the weekly habit that keeps your Learning Velocity from quietly degrading.
- 8Ship, Measure, Prove It
Define done in business terms, instrument before the work lands, and write the outcome in two paragraphs a CFO would read — then do it on your own project.
Earn a certificate
Complete all chapters to receive your certificate of completion.