Free curriculum · 4 tracks · 23 modules

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A structured 90-minute curriculum on how product management is being remade by Adaptive AI. The same thinking the big consultancies charge $200K-$500K to deliver as keynote engagements. Written down. Put on the internet. Given away.

No email required. No login wall. The full curriculum lives on this site under a public URL per module — share, fork, quote freely.

23
modules
across 4 shipping tracks
25-90
minutes per track
self-paced, jump anywhere
$0
cost
forever, no upsell
0
login walls
public URLs, share freely
40+
cited sources
McKinsey, DORA, Anthropic, Gong, Dunford
What you walk away with
01

You will understand the structural shift.

How Waterfall → Agile → Adaptive AI redefined the PM role each time, what specifically broke with each transition, and where most product orgs are stuck today — usually pretending Adaptive is Agile-with-AI-tools.

02

You will see the new role taking shape.

The Loop Master role — what it owns, what it does not, how it partners with the PM and the EM, and why Scrum.org, Anthropic, AgileGenesis, and CPrime are all converging on the same role-shaped hole in 2026.

03

You will have a working model for closed-loop attribution.

Why McKinsey 2025 says only ~5.5% of orgs report measurable AI EBIT impact, what the 5.5% are doing differently (it is not adoption volume — it is attribution capability), and a concrete day-in-the-life view of what a closed-loop workflow looks like.

Browse the modulesEvery diagram. Every module. One scroll.

The curriculum is built around diagrams — each module pairs a visual with a workflow narrative. Skim the diagrams first if you want to know what the curriculum actually shows you before reading.

Pick your trackEach is self-contained

More tracks landing soon

Security & Compliance TrackComing soon

For security and compliance reviewers

For security architects, compliance officers, GRC reviewers.

RLS tenant isolation, append-only audit log, SOC2 alignment, role-based access at the database row, schema-parity gates.

How to use thisFour common reading patterns

10 minutes

Just want the thesis

Read the "Argument in 90 seconds" section on /curriculum/pm. Five beats, three minutes if you skim, ten if you actually think.

Read the 90-second argument

Solo

One sitting, ~90 minutes

Pick the track that matches your role and read straight through. Each module is self-contained; you can stop and resume anywhere.

Start the PM Track

Self-paced

One module per week, 6 weeks

Better retention. Bookmark a module, read it Monday morning, let it land all week, then pick up the next one. Pairs well with team discussion.

Start with Module 1

Team book club

6 sessions, ~30 minutes each

Most leverage. Each session: read one module solo before, then 30 minutes group discussion using the "Discussion prompts" at the end of each module.

See the full PM Track

The thinking belongs to everyone. PM33 was built on top of it. If the field doesn't move forward, neither does the platform.

Big consultancies package this exact substance — the structural argument about role evolution, the Loop Master proposal, the closed-loop attribution framing — and deliver it to enterprise customers as keynote workshops. The fees land in the $200K–$500K range. The thinking itself is not proprietary to them; we just wrote it down, structured it as a curriculum, and put it on a public URL. We'd rather every PM team in the world have access to the model than gatekeep it.

— Steve Saper, founder, PM33

Companion toolsAlso free · also no login wall

Three diagnostics built to sit alongside the curriculum. Use them before you read to find your starting point, or after to see what moved.

Questions you might have
Why is this free?
We built PM33 on top of this thinking. The platform doesn't move forward if the field doesn't. The structural arguments — the three eras, the Loop Master role, closed-loop attribution — aren't proprietary to any one consultancy or vendor. We just wrote them down and put them on a public URL.
Is this just a sales pitch for PM33 dressed up as a curriculum?
No. Modules 1-5 of the PM Track don't name PM33 once. Module 6 ("Closed-Loop in Practice") uses PM33 as one concrete implementation alongside GitHub Spec Kit, Anthropic's harness pattern, LangChain, Mastra, and CrewAI — explicitly arguing the patterns are not vendor-specific. If you read modules 1-5 and built your own implementation from scratch, you'd end up with something structurally similar.
Can I share this with my team / use it for a workshop?
Yes, please. Every module lives at a public URL — share the link, embed it in your wiki, run it as a book club, fork the content if you want to translate or annotate. Attribution appreciated but not required.
How current is the content?
Sources span 2024-2026. The core argument is grounded in McKinsey QuantumBlack 2025, DORA 2024, Anthropic Engineering Nov 2025, Cagan Transformed 2024, Cutler ongoing, Lindsay 2026, AgileGenesis 2026. We update when a major paper lands that changes the picture.
Is there a PDF / printable version?
Not yet. The site is mobile-friendly and the print stylesheet works for individual modules. If you have a serious use case for a single bundled PDF (instructor pack, offline workshop, etc.), let us know.

Ninety minutes. Pick a track. Start now.

No signup. No paywall. The full curriculum is on this site under public URLs. Bookmark, share with your team, fork the content.

The thesis

Outcome Attribution is the Trick.

Independent validation tells you the code is correct. It doesn't tell you whether shipping it moved the metric. Outcome attribution does — and it's the part of the loop no other AI-development tool closes.