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Training to align product to business strategy

 

Hands-on training that helps your team connect strategy, user insight, and validation, so every decision is intentional, traceable, and built with confidence.

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Grant Product Management_THREADS Training

Module by module.
What your team will learn.

Start with an idea. Leave with a framework you'll use on every product decision.


WELCOME & OVERVIEW

Why PM must reclaim its seat. Five ownership keys. What THREADS solves and how it connects the lifecycle.

 
🕛30 MINUTES 

 


THINK (IDEATION)

Build a low-friction entry point that captures signal early, before process kills momentum.

 
🕛30 MINUTES 

 


HARMONIZE (STRATEGY ALIGNMENT)

Ensure decisions align with corporate strategy before time and money are invested.

 
🕛25 MINUTES 

 


ROLES (PERSONA DEVELOPMENT)

Define who you're building for. User, Buyer, Payer distinction. AI-expanded persona profiles.

 
🕛30 MINUTES 

 


EXPERIENCE (USE CASES)

Tasks, journey maps, motivation models. Predict behavior before you build.

 
🕛25 MINUTES 

 


ARTICULATE (MARKET & PRODUCT)

MRD/PRD anchored to problem definition. Revenue hypothesis, SaaS metrics, scenario modeling.

 
🕛60 MINUTES 

 


DETERMINE (PRIORITIZATION)

Kano model and RICE+. Strategy-weighted scoring. Cost-Quality-Time tradeoffs.

 
🕛35 MINUTES 

 


SUBSTANTIATE

AI-enabled prototyping. SME validation workshops. Functional test cases from journeys.

 
🕛25 MINUTES 

 

THREADS TRAINING PACKAGES

Choose Your Path

Two programs. One framework. Designed to ensure your product team succeeds every time.

ONE-DAY EXTENSIVE

Full Program

Ideal for teams ready to go deep on the complete lifecycle.  

  • Full-day, 9AM to 5PM program

  • All seven THREADS phases in a single immersive session. 

     

     

  • Live THREADS PM platform walkthrough included.

  • Up to 10 participants. Live virtual delivery.

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TWO-HOUR MODULES

Individual Workshops

Ideal for teams integrating training into a work schedule. 

  • Bite-sized 2-hour module session.

     

  • Each module builds towards the complete framework.

  • Select the THREADS stages most relevant to your team. 

  • Up to 12 participants per module. Live virtual delivery. 

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SPECIALIZED WORKSHOPS

Targeted sessions for specific challenges

PERSONA WORKSHOP

Structured, facilitated session focused exclusively on persona development. Define who you're building for and what truly matters to them.

  • Behavior-based personas grounded in support patterns
  • User, Buyer, Payer classification
  • AI-generated complete persona profiles
  • Outputs feed directly into journeys, requirements, RICE+
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STRATEGIC GROWTH WORKSHOP

Structured ideation for companies beyond product-market fit. Identify growth concepts aligned to your existing strategy.

  • Translate corporate strategy into opportunity constraints
  • Define adjacent segments and value propositions
  • Generate opportunity statements within strategic boundaries
  •  Leave with 1-3 concept outlines and rationale 
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PRIORITIZATION & ROADMAP

Walk away with a prioritized requirements list that holds up in cross-functional review. RICE+, Kano, and motivation model — applied to your live backlog.

  • Strategy-weighted RICE+ scoring (not guesswork)
  • Kano classification: Must Haves, Satisfiers, Delighters
  • Motivation model behavioral validation
  • Documented, auditable scoring rationale
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FRACTIONAL PM COACHING

Ongoing 1:1 or small-group coaching for CPOs, senior PMs, and fractional PMs. Framework-anchored. Applied directly to your real decisions.

  • Stage-by-stage review of real work
  • Building an AI-native product function
  • Decision quality and stakeholder defensibility
  • Fractional PM practice development
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A BETTER WAY TO TRAIN PRODUCT THINKING

What makes THREADS different

END-TO-END
Traceability across the lifecycle
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Every requirement, persona, and roadmap decision connects forward and backward. No isolated artifacts, no lost context between strategy and delivery.  
 
AI-NATIVE
Not a retrofitted module
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AI drives the work from day one,  generating, connecting, and validating artifacts. Not a module added to a curriculum built before generative AI existed.
STRATEGY WEIGHTED
RICE+ aligned to corporate goals
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Prioritization is aligned directly to corporate strategy criteria, not subjective estimates. Every roadmap decision is defensible and auditable by stakeholders. 
REVENUE BUILT-IN
 Hypothesis embedded 
 
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The business case is developed inside the requirements stage, so product teams own the financial justification for their roadmap without relying on finance.
USER, BUYER, PAYER
 Persona classification by role
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Personas are classified by commercial role. This distinction changes how teams design, sell, and prioritize their product at every stage.
ONE SIMPLE FRAMEWORK
No disconnected playbooks
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Replace fragmented tools and disconnected playbooks with a single, connected operating model, usable by product teams at any stage of maturity.

HOW THREADS COMPARES

What modern product teams actually need

THREADS integrates the capabilities most programs treat separately, giving teams a connected path from thinking to validation.

 

Capability THREADS  Pragmatic Inst.  Product School   SPVG/Inspired
End-to-end lifecycle in one framework ✓ Partial (multi-course) ✗ Partial (discovery focus)
AI-native design — not retrofitted ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Bi-directional artifact traceability ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Strategy-weighted RICE+ prioritization ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Revenue hypothesis embedded in requirements ✓ Partial ✗ ✗
User, Buyer, Payer persona classification ✓ Partial ✗ ✗
MRD and PRD taught as connected documents ✓ Partial ✗ ✗
Full lifecycle in a single day ✓ ✗ (multi-week) ✗ (multi-week) ✗
Post-PMF strategic growth workshop ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Fractional PM coaching & delivery model ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗

 

 * Based on publicly available program content as of Q1 2026. Individual programs may vary. 

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Grant Elliott

Founder & Chief Product Officer · SimplAI Product

Grant Elliott brings a rare combination of founder, operator, and product leadership experience to every THREADS session.

Co-founder and CEO of SimplAI Product and M2I Learning. Former Global Products Director at AT&T, managing a $500M global product portfolio. Previously COO & CISO at Voxiva, a global digital health pioneer. Adjunct instructor at the Pratt Institute, teaching a graduate course on entrepreneurial thinking and product leadership.

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Grant Product Management_THREADS Training

Build the structure your product team has been missing.

 

Register for a THREADS training or workshop and ship the right product. Every time.

 

 

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