Week 1 — Shared vocabulary - then spot the AI opportunity
Foundations, AI 101 & Discovery
The PM's operating system + AI 101
- JTBD, opportunity solution trees, and modern PM frameworks
- PRD anatomy and how AI PRDs differ from classical specs
- Prioritization - RICE, ICE, and AI-RICE
- How LLMs really work - tokens, context, sampling, hallucinations
- The model landscape: GPT, Claude, Gemini, open-weight
- What AI can - and cannot - do; the suitability filter
AI opportunity discovery
- The 4D Method - Discover, Define, Decide, Design
- AI RICE and the AI-readiness scorecard
- Build-Buy-Wrap - when to use which