Module 3: Iterate and Extend · 10/21
Session 8 — Mapping Product Infrastructure: From Skeleton to Real Application
The architecture of a software product, as a non-technical overview. Build versus buy at the component level. Adding a data layer to your product. Lab: integrate new components into your product, such as payment processing, a database, or a call to an LLM for AI features.
Before class
- Handbook Part 11
Next: 10/28 — Session 9, Polishing Design and Testing
Next deadline
Discovery Report
9 days
Start here
Syllabus, graduate section
The official PDF. Everything on this site is drawn from it.
The four modules
Every session belongs to one module, and each module answers one question.
- Module 1: Foundations of AI-Enabled Product DevelopmentSessions 1–3
- Module 2: Building with Strategic IntentSessions 4–7
- Module 3: Iterate and ExtendSessions 8–9
- Module 4: PitchSessions 10–13
Professor Anavir Shermon
anavir.shermon@utdallas.edu
Office: JSOM 4.222 · Office hours: Tuesdays, 11 AM to 12 PM, JSOM 4.222
Class (ENTP 6314 / MIS 6361): Wednesday, 7 to 9:45 PM, JSOM 13.501
TA: TBD