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A full lesson on creating features with AI. You clone an existing product interface and bring a few ideas to life. You can immediately apply it to your own job, even without completing the full course. Enjoy!

AI-prototyping: creating UI-features without  code

Learn what a PM should know about APIs in 5 examples: understand the concept and main terms (input, output, potential errors), and call a Taxi Order API yourself from your browser and even from Postman. This is a full lesson, not a cut version.

API for Product Managers

In this 5-minute tutorial, we'll go through a common technical case you might face in interviews: breaking down the product into IT logic pieces like services, databases, and APIs.

Tech-for-PM mini case: bicycle e-shop

Two related skills in one course: master tech to speak the same language with your team. Use it to AI-prototype features or a side project.

Lead PM @ Booking.com, PhD

Vladimir Kalmykov 

PhD Computer Science, first Tech PM in Booking.com, author at ProductDo.io 

Technical Foundations & AI Prototyping for Product Managers

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✅ Why invest in learning with me?I’m a Lead PM at Booking.com, and one of the first tech PMs there, with over 10 years in the field.Before moving into product, I was a Software Developer and earned a PhD in Computer Science. I’ve worked on both sides and know exactly what technical understanding PMs need - and don't.I'll teach you exactly what matters (and why) for driving products forward. You'll get the technical and AI-building fluency needed to drive your team, no coding, no database internals, no load balancers.✅ What can better technical understanding do for your career?From a survey of 650 PMs, 56% want to speak the same language as their engineers to communicate effectively, and build trust. 61% want to estimate features on their own, so they can plan better and deliver on time. 36% want to land a Big Tech PM role, where tech skills are critical.And today, with the rise of AI tools, tech acumen is more important than ever, because it allows you to feel in control while working with AI agents (Replit, Claude, etc).✅ What makes this course different?The course is 20% theory and 80% hands-on: you’ll do over 200 exercises / 8 projects, because that’s how real skills stick.

The technical understanding a successful PM needs - nothing more.

Gain tech fluency to lead your team effectively

Gauge feature complexity without devs and write solid PRDs

Prepare to handle technical interviews

Turn ideas into clickable full-stack prototypes or even start a side-project

The course is designed to explain the tech foundations and AI-building from the first (intuitive) principles.

No prior tech or AI experience needed

Senior Product Managers who want to level up their technical acumen

Jr/Middle Product Managers who want to lead with confidence and accelerate their growth

Program/Project Managers, Producers, Designers, Data Analysts, because tech foundations are the same for everyone

Tech Foundations & AI Prototyping 101 for PMs

Lead PM @ Booking.com, PhD Computer Science

10+ day-to-day examples: we'll cover a few and I'll provide a practical checklist for the rest

When PMs need tech & AI-prototyping skills

We'll discuss API 101, and you'll make a real API call. I'll share a checklist and a full lesson on API for PMs

Understanding APIs as a non-tech leader

We'll use new API skills to build a small app with AI. I'll share a full lesson on  AI-prototyping of UI features

Applying tech skills to AI-prototype effectively

Technical skills for non-tech leaders: the basics

Lead PM @ Booking.com

From tech giants, to smaller tech products, to day-to-day PM situations: I'll show examples and share a handy checklist

Recognize PM situations which need tech skills

We'll take an example of a simple app and build a Service Diagram together

Practice Tech skill #1: building a Microservice architecture

We'll discuss API 101, and you'll make a real API call. I'll explain and share an “API for PMs” checklist.

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Technical Foundations & AI Prototyping for Product Managers

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Tech Foundations & AI Prototyping 101 for PMs

Technical skills for non-tech leaders: the basics

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AI-prototyping: creating UI-features without code

API for Product Managers

Tech-for-PM mini case: bicycle e-shop