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The product operating model for AI teams

For senior PMs and product leaders. Building or transforming your operating model for AI-augmented teams.

Course overview

This course is for product leaders and senior PMs who want to build or transform their organization's product operating model in an AI-augmented world. It draws heavily on the frameworks of Melissa Perri and Marty Cagan, adapted for the specific challenges that AI creates for product organizations. This is not a course about using AI tools. It's a course about building the organizational systems that let AI-augmented teams do their best work.

Who this course is for

Senior PMs, directors, and VPs of product. Product leaders building or restructuring product teams. Engineering leaders who partner with product. Anyone responsible for how product decisions get made in their organization.

Course structure

8 units, designed for 3-4 weeks. Each unit includes a video lesson (8-10 minutes), reading material, a practical exercise, and a leadership reflection prompt. Several units include organizational assessment templates.

Units

  1. Diagnosing your current operating model
  2. The product operating model: structure, strategy, and accountability
  3. From feature teams to empowered product teams in an AI context
  4. Product strategy that scales: connecting company vision to team outcomes
  5. The discovery-delivery balance when AI accelerates execution
  6. Funding, staffing, and organizing AI product teams
  7. Building a learning organization: metrics, retrospectives, and adaptation
  8. Leading the transformation: a practical change management playbook

Units