Valentina Jemuović

Stop Breaking Production: ATDD in Legacy Code

Technical Coach @ Optivem

Discover why many test automation initatives fail in reducing regression bugs

Why Unit Tests & E2E Tests don't protect us in production

Deliver new business features while preserving the stability of existing workflows

Implement User Stories without breaking functionality

Resolve defects in a way that prevents regressions and unintended side effects

Fix Bugs without causing new Regression Bugs

Refresh the user interface and experience without disrupting core system behavior

Redesign the UX/UI whilst whilst keeping the system working

Upgrade legacy architecture incrementally while ensuring ongoing reliability and business continuity

Modernize your System Architecture & Tech Stack safely

Get the Maven Game Production certification, and network with over 100 students and industry professionals! 🕹️&nbsp;𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥Andy Johnson is a premiere, AAA Game Producer, having worked on some of the biggest games of all time including Minecraft, advised on Candy Crush, supported the launch of Sonic 2 and developed Disney Pixar's' Cars. Andy developed the Game Production course to knowledge-share the fundamentals, that aren't taught at studios, for the next generation of Game Producers. 🎮 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘Course alumni from - Microsoft &amp; Halo Studios - Activision/Blizzard - EA - Ubisoft - Riot Games &amp; Tencent Studios - Pokémon - Apple - Sega .. and many more !!! Join the 4.9★ rated, original live video Game Production course, with over 500 students to date! The course is taught by Andy with 2 industry expert guest speakers from Bungie, King, Amazon Games and NCSoft. Whether you have game development experience or not, by the end of this course you'll have insight into the role and be able to talk from a position of understanding through experience. Lessons take you step by step through battle tested processes implemented at major studios. Assignments use a safe environment of discovery and exploration, with each assignment building off of previous decisions to simulate real-world game producer problems. By the end of this course, you'll be THINKING and TALKING like a Game Producer!

The Game Production course Game Studios trust!

Course syllabus

Live classes with Andy teaching fundamental skills and process

Tuesdays & Thursdays

One lesson per week opens early for AMA style Q&amp;A time to discuss students questions

Open Office Time

Experience real-world Game Producer challenges and learn how to think like a Producer!Assignments have been designed to be challenging with a learn through play methodology - no boring multiple choice questionnaires here.

Project Assignments

Meet with 2 industry Production veterans in our Fireside Chat lessons, in an informal AMA style session.

Fireside Chats

Use the dedicated Discord channel for questions, assignment help, discussion, and more!

Cohort Discord Channel

On course completion you'll be invited to the exclusive Alumni Discord channel to stay in touch with Andy and join over 100 students from across the games industry.

Alumni Discord Channel

Course schedule & support

Early Career Producers ﻿who want to level up their skills to gain promotion

Lateral Moverslooking to transition into Game Development

Indie Developers who want AAA insight and proven processes

QA Leads or Testers wanting to move into Production

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Andy has released games on nearly every platform over the last 3 decades.

A tutor who's shipped games you've played!

This course will challenge you with dilemmas faced by the best Game Producers.

Rewire your brain to think like a Game Producer

Scrum in real world game development is messy, learn what does and doesn't work.

Intro to Agile & Scrum

Learn project planning and management methodologies used to ship games you've played.

Learn how to Roadmap and Budget

Practice what you learned in a series of engaging assignments, designed to simulate real-world Game Production.

Gain insight into Development Challenges of real Game Producers

Game Development is inherently risky, discover proven tools to identify and mitigate risks.

Understand Risk Analysis and Mitigation

Gain access to a dedicated Discord community of Game Producers and previous course alumni.

Access our Network Accelerator

Learn the art of Game Production from a AAA Game Producer of games you've actually played!

Andy Johnson

Head of Production & Game Operations: 30yr Industry Veteran

GP14: Cohort 7 - Summer 2025

GP15: Cohort 8 - Fall 2025

🚨 Independent offering. This course is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or related to any of the instructor’s current or past employers. This course is a practical roadmap for PMs who want to go from "I understand what RAG is" to "I shipped an AI product that customers love." Over 4 weeks of hands-on, interactive sessions, you'll bridge the gap between AI knowledge and shipping success. This is best suited for PMs who have at least a theoretical grasp on the latest AI concepts (RAG, MCP, Evals) and who have played around with prototyping tools like Replit, Bolt but are looking to bring AI features from prototype to production inside their companies. At the end of this course, you’ll leave able to:&nbsp; - Build and deploy functional AI agents for your personal and team workflows. - Define Your H1/H2 AI Roadmap, and lead AI product strategy with confidence and credibility. - Evaluate AI product performance with robust metrics beyond simple accuracy, or toxicity.&nbsp;After years of building AI products, I’ve noticed something surprising: every PM building with generative AI obsesses over crafting better prompts and using the latest LLM, yet almost no one masters the hidden lever behind every exceptional AI product: evaluations. - Take prototypes to production with clear implementation plans. - Collaborate effectively with AI engineers, executives and stakeholders.&nbsp; - Learn how to identify and hire great AI PMs for your team. --- WHAT TO EXPECT 1. We’ll prototype an AI product (I.e. use code gen with Cursor / Replit + langgraph/crew) to build an agentic application/system, relevant to your work or life. If you don’t have an idea, I’ll provide one/walk through one. We’ll build it together. 2. We’ll breakdown how code gen agents work to understand the inner workings of an AI product/feature (main components).Evals are the hidden lever behind every exceptional AI product. We’ll explore this in practice by running evals on your prototype and iterating on the prompt. 3. We’ll talk about best practices for getting to production, what to think about when you have real user data, how to work together with an AI team.&nbsp; 4. We’ll turn your prototype + eval system + learnings into an “AI strategy doc/artifact” that you could use to convey this ai feature to others on your team/stakeholders --- This course will be very hands-on – you’ll build real tools, evaluation frameworks, and develop implementation plans!&nbsp; - 4 week live sprint: 8 interactive live sessions packed with vibe-coding labs, eval workshops, and peer feedback loopsAll sessions will be recorded and available to students asynchronously. - Built by and led by a current practitioner – I’m sharing the playbook I use as Head of Product at Arize AI (supports companies like Uber, Instacart, Discord, Reddit) and Spotify to help hundreds of engineers launch AI-powered products. - I'll also host a dedicated Slack community where you can communicate with me and other participants.&nbsp; - All sessions will be recorded and available to students asynchronously. This is not a theoretical course about AI concepts—it's a practical roadmap for product managers who want to go from "I understand what RAG is" to "I shipped an AI product that customers love." Over 4 weeks of hands-on, interactive sessions, you'll bridge the gap between AI knowledge and shipping success.

Design, prototype, and ship AI-powered products that delight customers

We'll help you get Cursor set up, but some familiarity with coding/debugging will go a long way here (i.e. being able to read python code)

Familiarity with code

We will have sessions twice a week for 4 weeks until the last week, for a total of 7 sessions.

There will be assignments after each session to reinforce what you learned in the lesson.

Weekly projects

Course schedule


Product Managers familiar with AI terms and concepts (LLMs, RAG, etc.) that wants to move beyond prompting to building actual AI products

Technical PMs transitioning to AI-focused roles who see AI product leadership as their career differentiator in the next 1-2 years

Product Leaders and Executives responsible for AI strategy who need practical frameworks for evaluating and implementing AI initiatives

What makes this course unique


This course will be focused on outcomes. I've intentionally limited enrollment to ensure personalized attention during live building sessions, direct feedback on your specific AI product challenges, and meaningful connections with fellow AI-focused PMs.

Hands-On Learning in a Limited-Size Cohort

Create real AI agents and products you can use immediately—no theoretical exercises. You'll master the techniques needed to build agents that solve real problems and continuously improve over. We'll be using low code tools like Bolt, Replit and write code with Cursor

Learn by building - Live during the lesson

Each lesson includes templates and frameworks you can use the next day at your job. Learn the end-to-end process for taking AI products from concept to shipping success, including agent building, evaluation frameworks, implementation planning, and product strategy.

Apply immediately to your work

Move from prototype to production with detailed guidance on what changes when scaling AI. You'll learn strategies for maintaining quality at scale with evals while managing cost, latency, and performance constraints.

Focus on the full lifecycle

&nbsp;Learn the critical skill of designing and implementing evals that CPOs at OpenAI and Anthropic identify as essential. While everyone else is obsessing over prompts, I'll show you why evaluation frameworks are the true differentiator in AI product development.

Master evals as a PM

Analyze the best AI products on the market to identify patterns that create exceptional experiences. You'll develop frameworks for identifying high-value AI opportunities and aligning your organization around AI.

Develop AI product intuition

This isn't theory from someone who "used to" build AI products. I'm actively working with companies like Uber and Instacart to implement and improve their AI systems. Everything I teach comes from the frontlines of AI product building.

Built by someone shipping real AI products right now

Connect with like-minded professionals transitioning into AI product roles, creating a valuable network for future collaboration.

Community of peers﻿


Build, evaluate, and ship successful AI products with real-world frameworks and hands-on experience to become an advanced AI product leader

Aman Khan

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

By the end of this course, you will experience a complete transformation in how you approach customer behavior, decision-making, and product/service development. You'll learn the strengths and weaknesses of the three core customer jobs-to-be-done frameworks in the marketplace:- Ulwick's Outcome-Driven Innovation Framework;- Kalbach's JTBD Canvas 2.0; and- Boehme's Wheel of Progress® framework. How they stand up (and compare) when tackling different goals and objectives, use cases, related to product innovation, job mapping, experience design, and customer progress design. You'll get practical, hands-on use of each framework through a collection of ChatGPT prompt engineering exercises built around select B2C and B2B case studies. Here’s how: Shift from Product-Centric to Progress-Centric Thinking - Move beyond focusing on product features and demographics. - Understand that customers hire products to make progress in their lives. - Learn to design products and services that meet specific customer jobs and outcomes. Master Practical JTBD Frameworks - Learn three key frameworks: Ulwick’s Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI), Kalbach’s JTBD Canvas, and Boehme’s Wheel of Progress®. - Confidently apply the right framework for product innovation, journey mapping, and behavioral analysis. - Gain tools to map customer journeys, uncover unmet needs, and prioritize opportunities. Improve Decision-Making with Deeper Customer Insights - Understand the Forces of Progress that drive customer decisions (habits, pushes, desires, avoidances, pulls, anxieties). - Learn to address barriers to adoption and motivate customers to choose your solution. - Make better strategic decisions by grounding them in behavioral and emotional insights. Identify and Prioritize High-Impact Opportunities - Use Kalbach's JTBD Canvas 2.0 to map out the end-to-end experience. - Use Ulwick’s ODI framework to quantify customer needs and calculate Opportunity Scores. - Learn how to prioritize features and innovations based on customer outcomes, focusing on what delivers the most value. Gain Expertise in Emotional and Behavioral Drivers - Understand the emotional and social dimensions that influence purchasing decisions. - Identify key moments of struggle and progress using the Wheel of Progress®. - Design solutions that resonate not just functionally, but emotionally and behaviorally. Select and Apply the Right JTBD Framework with Confidence - Get clarity on when and how to use each framework based on your goals and team needs. - Confidently lead cross-functional teams through the JTBD process, aligning efforts around customer progress. -By the end, you’ll have a strategic toolkit to create products and services that genuinely help customers make progress, while improving your ability to innovate, map customer journeys, and prioritize the right opportunities for growth.

How to utilize Top 3 Jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) Frameworks

Four Live Cohort Sessions; all sessions recorded.

June 3rd to 12th

Taught using both B2C and B2B Case Studies using tailored ChatGPT Prompts for each case study. Final project to apply learnings around a Use Case of your choice. Opportunity to mix and match different Customer JTBD Frameworks to fit your needs.

Case Study Based

Course schedule

Product Managers and Innovators looking to uncover and prioritize unmet customer needs to drive product innovation and market success.

Customer Experience (CX) and UX Designers who want to map customer journeys more effectively to address why people 'hired' the product.

Marketers and Behavioral Analysts who need to create messaging that resonates with customer progress, motivations, and emotional drivers.

Business Strategists aiming to apply JTBD insights to gain a competitive advantage and align teams around clear customer goals and needs.

Entrepreneurs interested in developing products or services that meet real customer jobs, avoiding the pitfalls of feature-focused methods.

What is Job Theory? It's origins. Core concepts related to identifying the struggling moment, situational context, customer progress (not products), job types, and outcomes.

An Introduction to Job Theory

An overview of the three core frameworks for customer jobs-to-be-done research: Ulwicks Outcome-Driven Innovation, Kalbachh's JTBD Canvas 2.0, and Boehme's Wheel of Progress® (informed by the work of Bob Moesta).

An overview of the three core JTBD frameworks

An overview of the five types of innovation (product or service, operational, new market, disruptive, and transformational). Which JTBD framework is best to utilize in each case.

The five types of innovation and which framework should you leverage

A deep dive into the Outcome-Driven Innovation framework leveraging ChatGPT prompt engineering to demonstrate it's strength's and weaknesses centered around a specific case study.

A deep dive into Ulwick's Outcome-Driven Innovation framework (ChatGPT-driven)

A deep dive into the JTBD Canvas 2.0 framework leveraging ChatGPT prompt engineering to demonstrate it's strength's and weaknesses centered around a specific case study.

A deep dive into Kalbach's JTBD Canvas 2.0 framework (ChatGPT-driven)

A deep dive into the Wheel of Progress® framework leveraging ChatGPT prompt engineering to demonstrate it's strength's and weaknesses centered around a specific case study.

A deep dive into Boehme's Wheel of Progress®  framework (ChatGPT-driven)

Determining which JTBD Framework is best for your use case based upon your problem space and key outcomes. Matching your goals to the 'best fit' framework and its associated strengths/weaknesses.

Selecting the right Customer JTBD Framework for your Use Case

By the end of this course, you’ll shift from a product-focused mindset to a customer progress and outcomes-oriented mindset.

JOHN GUSIFF

Cohort 3

Cohort 4

Stop Watching Others Build Your Dream While You're Stuck in Meetings. This is for you if you're tired of: - Scrolling LinkedIn seeing "solopreneurs" announce six-figure AI launches - Being trapped in toxic work culture and meaningless meetings - Having great AI ideas but zero clue how to build them - Watching the window close while others cash in on the AI gold rush ...and if you want: - An escape plan from the 9-5 grind - To finally prove you can build AND monetize a real product - Your first AI product revenue by Thanksgiving - A clear path to $100K without needing to code Here's how it will work: Week 1-4: Stop GuessingValidate your idea with investor-grade filters. Know it's worth building before you build it. NOTE: Weeks 1-4 are avaliable as a standalone program, "Escape Velocity: Your 100K Idea Validation Sprint" Week 5-10: Build Without CodeShip your AI product using cutting-edge tools. We'll show you the best ways to drive demand and market WHILE you're building - not afterwards.*No technical background required.* Week 9-12: Launch &amp; EarnGo live, get customers, generate revenue. Real money from real users - and know how you'll support and grow your business long-term. What You Get✅ A live, profitable AI product ✅ Proven systems that eliminate guesswork ✅ Your escape plan from corporate chaos ✅ Community of ambitious builders like you The Cost of WaitingEvery day you delay = another day someone else takes your market share.Question: Can you afford another year watching others build the life you want? Ready to escape? Join us and get ready to join a group of committed builders on the path to our big LAUNCH PARTY in November!

Validate, build, and launch your six-figure AI product—without quitting your job

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May 7, 2022

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The Stuck Visionary: You have bold AI ideas but zero time to waste. You’re tired of watching others launch while you’re trapped in meetings

The Strategic Escape Artist: You’re ready to plot your exit—from corporate, from chaos, or just from burnout. You know an AI is the way out

The Builder Without a Dev Team: You see the opportunity in AI but don’t code—and don’t want to. You need a system to ship something real.

Even without a technical background. Even without certainty you've got the right idea. Be earning your first income by Thanksgiving on your way to your first 100k AI product.

From 0 to Launched in 90 Days
 

Validation - from experts on the right path, and from users on the market need - breeds confidence. Be ready to take the right risks and make the right investments to make your dream a reality.

The Path to Confidence

Radically accelerate your time to market - and time to revenue - with the latest AI tools and battle-tested systems.

Build and Launch Using AI Tools

Know exactly what to do next: scale, automate, partner, or turn it into a lifestyle business—or even raise.

Own a Product you can Grow, Fund, or Run n as a Revenue Stream
 

Break out of meetings and into the market with your AI product in 90 days. No technical background required! 

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Stop Breaking Production: ATDD in Legacy Code