Course

Technical Fundamentals for Product Managers

Jules Boiteux

Ex-PM turned AI-Native Product Builder

Six 1-hour sessions to acquire all the technical fundamentals a PM needs

Does this sound familiar?

Another meeting with developers where you felt the odd one out. You can't challenge what's said, so you nod, and feel you lost an hour.

Everyone says PMs should become Product Builders. You've seen fellow PMs ship PRs, and you wonder where to start.

This knowledge is not reserved for people who studied engineering. No need for a PhD, a rocket science degree or knowledge of a programming language.

In 6 one-hour sessions, you cover 6 technical fundamentals: how a web app is built, Git and GitHub, database structure, APIs, LLM fundamentals, and shipping to production (CI/CD, deploys, monitoring).

Each session combines theory with live demos on real products. Then you apply it to your product with Claude Code (or any AI tool) as tutor.

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Now imagine if you could:

✅ Follow any technical conversation with engineers

✅ Challenge the estimate on a "small change"

✅ Be a full part of the software development lifecycle, from PR to release

✅ Be up to date on LLM fundamentals

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📚 Lifetime access to recordings and future cohorts

✍️ Personalized quizzes during and after each session

👥 Private Slack community

🎓 A certificate that you have the technical fundamentals of a modern PM

What you’ll learn

By the end, you'll feel confident in tech conversations and contribute to the software development lifecycle: review, comment and push PRs

  • Frontend, backend, API and database: what each one does and how they talk

  • Follow one feature request through every layer of a real product

  • Read an architecture diagram, and tell a monolith from microservices

  • Understand what Git is and the main workflows teams build around it

  • Create your own commits, branches and pull requests

  • Read a diff and leave a comment on a PR engineers value

  • Understand how tables, keys and relations model a product's core objects

  • Read a schema and run your first SQL queries

  • Know where analytics data lives, and why changing a column is a project

  • Endpoints, auth tokens, webhooks and SDKs: what's what

  • Read API docs and make your first API call

  • Spot why integrations break: rate limits, errors and retries

  • Understand how an LLM works: tokens, context and why outputs vary

  • RAG, tool calling, MCP and agents: what's what and where each one fits

  • Estimate what an AI feature costs, and judge whether it works with evals

  • Follow a change from merge to production: environments, CI/CD and deploys

  • Scaling, monitoring, incidents and security (SOC 2): what's what

  • Talk tech debt with your engineering lead, with the right words

Learn directly from Jules

Jules Boiteux

Jules Boiteux

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Former Senior Product Manager, now founder of Vibe Coding Academy & AI educator

Trained Teams at
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Amazon
PayPal
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GoDaddy
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Who this course is for

  • PMs and Product Owners who feel they'd work better with engineers if they were more technical. You'll learn how your product is built.

  • PMs and Product Leaders who sign off on technical trade-offs they cannot read. You'll learn to question estimates, tech debt and AI costs.

  • Recent graduates, UX Researchers, Designers and Growth Managers aiming for a PM job. You'll learn the technical basics PM posts ask for.

What's included

Jules Boiteux

Live sessions

Learn directly from Jules Boiteux in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access to recordings and ressources

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

6 expert-led live sessions

One hour each. Theory made visual with diagrams, then live demos on real products. Every session is interactive: you follow along and ask your questions live.

Personalized quizzes during and after each session

Short quizzes check what you understood, during the session and after it, so you know where you stand and what to revisit.

Lifetime access to future cohorts

Join any future cohort of this course at no extra cost, and go back to the recordings whenever you need to.

Forever access to the slides and the resources doc

Every deck and diagram, plus the resources doc with ready-to-use prompts and step-by-step instructions for each session.

Open-source projects to learn on

Real open-source products that I share and give you access to, so every concept is shown on working code, not on a toy example.

Private Slack community

Ask questions and exchange with peers between sessions, including the question you were too shy to ask in a design review. Accessible even after the course.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jan 26—Jan 31

    Jan

    26

    Session 1 - How an App Is Structured: Frontend, Backend, Database and Infrastructure

    Tue 1/2612:00 PM—1:00 PM (EST)

    Jan

    28

    Session 2 - Git and GitHub: Commits, Branches and Pull Requests

    Thu 1/2812:00 PM—1:00 PM (EST)

Week 2

Feb 1—Feb 7

    Feb

    2

    Session 3 - Databases: Tables, Relations and Your First SQL Queries

    Tue 2/212:00 PM—1:00 PM (EST)

    Feb

    4

    Session 4 - APIs and Integrations: How a Product Talks to Other Systems

    Thu 2/412:00 PM—1:00 PM (EST)

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