Extracted from the FigJam board "Fall 2026 AI Development Residency – Class Lecture and Working Sessions." Faithful transcription of every Week 2 section, in board order. Checklists are also provided as clean PNG files; board diagrams/memes are described inline.

AI Dev Residency Notebook

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Transcript

AI Dev Residency Week 2 Lecture Transcript

FigJam Link

https://www.figma.com/board/mqryoCyR9mAw3v6kyDlmes/Fall-2026-AI-Development-Residency---Class-Lecture-an-Working-Sessions?node-id=544-5077&t=XS6vaekeSphGWjfU-1

We Are Covering the "Green Circles" This Week

This week focuses on the Product Management disciplines:

• Go-To-Market — how a product reaches customers and lands at launch. Deliverables: market analysis; competitive analysis; feature analysis; product positioning.
• Product Strategy — what it's for, who it serves, how it wins. Deliverables: release vision; release scope; KPIs.
• Requirements — what a product needs to do. Deliverables: user stories; problem statements; acceptance criteria; flow charts; use cases.
• Backlog Management — what delivers over time + managing delivery. Deliverables: product roadmap; release plan; kanban board.

Why Are We Here?

UX/research/product roles don't just deliver solutions — they solve problems (for users, clients, colleagues, the business) and must communicate why the problem is worth solving. Otherwise you're just taking orders. This class teaches you to solve the right problem correctly — breaking requests into user problems, goals, and needs.

Requirements Are Assumptions!

Every team decision is an assumption. Nothing is verified until your whole audience uses something and gives representative, statistically significant data. Agile teams release early and often and continuously test assumptions and refine their vision. It's cyclical: every delivery forms new assumptions to validate.