Managing and Growing Product Lines as Complex Adaptive Systems
When: Oct 6–7, 2026 (Tuesday–Wednesday), 9:00 AM–4:30 PM | Where: Atlanta, GA
An in-depth, 2-day Frontier Master Class. It’s not about automating what you do. It’s about changing what you do.
This master class delivers a working understanding of product lines as complex adaptive systems — and of the Constructor, a powerful enabler that both builds the product line and holds it fit with the organization. It is the thinking that changes (almost) everything about how mid- and large-sized companies develop, manage, and grow their product lines — and the foundation for exploiting AI and AI agents for genuine advantage, rather than merely automating yesterday’s work.
Participants learn how to…
- Position purposefully — for greater customer advantage and competitiveness
- Focus functional roles and responsibilities to maximize product-line gains
- Build responsive roadmapping capability
- Target impactful innovations — rather than screening ideas to find them
- Amplify operational effectiveness across the line
Critical topics
- Product lines as complex adaptive systems: archetypes, parts, forces, and dynamics
- Platform-levers, chain-link affordance, and multi-generational moves
- Jobs-to-be-Done and verb-based market segmentation
- Where AI and AI agents actually change the work — not just automate it
- Governance, decision flow, and portfolio memory
- The Constructor: holding congruency and assemblage as one motion
- The Accelerating Learning Loop: lap time, velocity, and loop maturity
- Transformations, strategy pivots, and roadmap recasts
- ConstructorOne™: operationalizing the Constructor with agentic AI
- Corporate innovation under uncertainty: complexity as your enabling constraint
The Constructor, AI, and Agents
Most “AI for product management” amounts to automating the work you already do. This class starts somewhere else. You’ll build a deep, working grasp of the Constructor — the role that holds congruency (reading the system for fit) and assemblage (building it forward) as one continuous motion — then see it operationalized with agentic AI, using ConstructorOne™ as a worked example.
Register
| Attendee tier | Full price | Early registration −10% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person from a company | $2,800 | $2,520 (through Sep 15, 2026) | Register » |
| 2nd–4th person | $2,650 | $2,385 (through Sep 15, 2026) | Register » |
| 5th and additional | $2,350 | $2,115 (through Sep 15, 2026) | Register » |
Tiered pricing is per company: the 1st registrant, the 2nd–4th, and the 5th and beyond. Early-registration pricing applies automatically through the cutoff date.
Registration & logistics
Two days, 9:00 AM–4:30 PM. Payment (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or PayPal) is due before the class. Alternate participants may be substituted at no charge. Cancellations must be made at least 21 days before the class; credit applies toward a future course, or a full refund less a $450 fee is mailed by check.
Questions? Contact workshops@adept-plm.com.
