Managing and Growing Product Lines as Complex Adaptive Systems
Jan 13–14, 2027
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
1st Person

Description

Managing and Growing Product Lines as Complex Adaptive Systems

An in-depth, 2-day Frontier Master Class

Jan 13–14, 2027 (Wed–Thu) · Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
1st Person · 9:00 AM–4:30 PM · In person, 2 days

Early registration: book by Dec 19, 2026 for $2520 (save 10% off the $2800 rate).

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 it is the foundation for exploiting AI — and AI agents — for genuine advantage, rather than merely automating yesterday’s work.

It’s not about automating what you do. It’s about changing what you do.

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

Key learnings

1. See — and manage — your product line as a complex adaptive system
2. Take up the Constructor role: hold congruency and assemblage as one motion
3. Integrate top-down business strategy and bottom-up know-how into product-line strategic moves
4. Find and release the systemic bottleneck (rarely about resource limits)
5. Surpass the limits of project and product-portfolio management
6. Define superior platform-levers, chain-link affordances, and system archetypes
7. Run the Accelerating Learning Loop to shorten lap time and raise velocity
8. Point AI and AI agents where they change the work — using ConstructorOne™ as the model

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 in a complex adaptive product line that holds congruency (reading the system for fit) and assemblage (building it forward) as one continuous motion — then see that role operationalized with agentic AI, using ConstructorOne™ as a worked example.

Registration & logistics

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 future courses, or a full refund less a $450 fee is mailed by check.

Questions? Contact workshops@adept-plm.com.