Schedule (Sandbox)
Below is the planned daily schedule. Dates, topics, and assessments may adjust as needed.
| Week | Dates for MSB 341 | Topics | Engagement Check (EC) | Sprint Demo | MSB 341 Sprint Demo Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon, Sept 8 | Course overview, Product Management and AI, Thought Leaders, Computer Setup | – | – | – |
| 2 | Mon, Sept 15 | Git and Deployment | EC 1 - AI Product Management | Sprint 1 | Mon, Sept 29 |
| 3 | Mon, Sept 22 | Product Management Activities, Agile, User Stories | EC 2 - Product Management Activities | – | – |
| 4 | Mon, Sept 29 | Guest: Jeff Dyer - The Innovator’s Method, Jobs-to-be Done, Identify Customer Needs/Pain | EC 3 - Innovation Skills | Sprint 2 | Mon, Oct 13 |
| 5 | Mon, Oct 6 | Product Architecture, Front-end, back-end, database | Engagement Check 4 - Product Architecture | – | – |
| 6 | Mon, Oct 13 | Full-stack Product MVP with Supabase and Stripe | Mid-semester Feedback Survey | Sprint 3 | Mon, Oct 27 |
| 7 | Mon, Oct 20 | Storytelling, Pitch Decks, Influence without Authority | EC 5 - GitHub and Collaboration | – | – |
| 8 | Mon, Oct 27 | LLMs, Emmbeddings, and Programmatic Prompting | EC 6 - APIs and How the Internet Works | Sprint 4 | Mon, Nov 17 |
| 9 | Mon, Nov 3 | Model fine-tuning | EC 7 - Principles of Software Engineering and Design | – | – |
| 10 | Mon, Nov 10 | Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) | EC 8 - AI Tools | Sprint 5 | Mon, Nov 24 |
| 11 | Mon, Nov 17 | AI Agents | EC 9 - Product Metrics and Data Analysis | – | – |
| 12 | Mon, Nov 24 | No class – Thanksgiving | – | – | – |
| 13 | Mon, Dec 1 | AI Evals | EC 10 - Product Metrics and Data Analysis | – | – |
| 14 | Mon, Dec 8 | Last Day of Class - Final Presentations · Reflections | – | Extra Credit - Student Ratings | Final Product Demo |
| 15 | Mon, Dec 15 | Final Exam (50 questions, multiple choice, testing center) | – | – | – |