In this short article, I would like to share some updates about the development of the Audio Product Academy program.
Summer is a great time to build
Business life slows down during the summer, which has helped us move the training program forward. We have finished setting up the platform and the course structure, and are now planning the launch of the first courses.
What will the program look like?
The program is divided into two course families.
Horizontal courses cover cross-functional competencies that apply across audio-product companies and teams. They will serve as career-development resources not only for students but also for established professional as some courses will cover advanced topics.
Vertical courses focus on specific audio-product market segments. They can serve existing companies willing to enter a new market segment or startups building products for that segment. They can also be very useful for professionals who would like to transition into roles in those market segments.
Here is the course structure overview.
Figure 1 – APA Course structure
Workshops: We occasionally invite seasoned pros to hold intensive, instructor-led workshops.
This year we held two editions of AI-Augmented Product Manager with Tomek Żernicki, co-founder of Zylia.
“The AI-Augmented PM Workshop was excellent: very informative, practical, and hands-on. During the course, I was already using the tools and applying the workflows in real time. I see great potential in using these AI tools for product work, strategy, and day-to-day execution. Tomasz Żernicki and Wojciech Ozimek explained the concepts very clearly and made the learning experience both useful and easy to follow. I would highly recommend this workshop to people in the industry who are looking for an easy and effective way to implement AI into their workflows and improve productivity.”
This is Gonzalo Maruga, Hardware Project Manager at NeuralDSP said after this workshop.
There is one more session with him planned this year
Details here: https://ai-augmented.pm/
Schedule
I cannot yet share specific dates, as we depend on the availability of professionals who are busy building and managing audio products. However, there will be two or three courses this year, with one coming in the August/September timeframe.
The first course is coming in August
We will soon announce the first course.
This course is called Building Your First AI Agent for Product Work. Its purpose is to help product managers, program managers, founders, designers, and marketers take advantage of agentic AI and radically increase their productivity and the quality of their product decisions.
In this course you will learn how to:
- Achieve a radical change in productivity by turning recurring work into reusable AI-assisted workflows.
- Give AI the right context so you spend less time explaining, searching, and correcting.
- Connect useful files, sources, and tools so the information behind your work is easier to access and apply.
- Synthesize information faster and make better-informed decisions with clearer, more relevant outputs.
- Add guardrails that make outputs easier to trust, review, and reuse.
- Maintain and improve your workspace as your needs evolve.
Here is the link to the course page:
https://audioproductacademy.com/courses/building-your-first-ai-agent/
We will share the update in the next newsletter, but on the course page you can ask to be notified when pre-sale starts
What’s next
I am already working on new courses: Introduction to Audio Product Management for first-time founders and product owners; the advanced program Product Portfolio Management for directors and VPs of Product; and Finance for PMs and Founders.
