Self-paced
All four modules, exercises with model answers, and the capstone rubric. Work through it over three weeks or one focused weekend. Includes lifetime access to template updates.
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Spec-Driven Development Foundations
Writing good specs is a skill, not a talent. This course teaches it directly: from a blank page to a reviewed, build-ready spec for your own project — in four modules, with every format ending in the same deliverable.
Four modules, eighteen lessons
MOD 01
The spec mindset
- 1.1What belongs in a spec (and what doesn't)28 min
- 1.2The contract model: writing for the implementer32 min
- 1.3Scope statements and the art of the non-goal26 min
- 1.4Anatomy of a feature spec, line by line40 min
- 1.5Exercise: draft a one-page spec for a past project45 min
MOD 02
Acceptance criteria that actually accept
- 2.1Verifiability: the test every criterion must pass30 min
- 2.2Functional vs. non-functional criteria28 min
- 2.3Edge cases, error states, and the "done" checklist38 min
- 2.4Criteria for AI-built features: what agents need spelled out35 min
- 2.5Exercise: rewrite five vague criteria until they're executable50 min
MOD 03
From plan to task decomposition
- 3.1Deriving a plan from a spec without inventing requirements34 min
- 3.2Task sizing: small enough to verify, big enough to matter30 min
- 3.3Ordering by risk: fail early on purpose28 min
- 3.4Exercise: decompose your module-1 spec into fifteen tasks75 min
MOD 04
Review loops and spec maintenance
- 4.1Running a spec review: roles, checklist, timeboxes32 min
- 4.2The review gate: verifying builds against specs30 min
- 4.3Amending specs mid-build without losing the thread28 min
- 4.4Capstone: a reviewed, build-ready spec for your real project90 min
Three ways to take it
Live cohort
Four live sessions with spec reviews in small groups, plus office hours. Your capstone spec is reviewed by an instructor against the same rubric used in the field. Limited seats per cohort.
Private workshop
A two-day intensive for your whole team, built around your actual backlog. Day one teaches the discipline; day two specs a real upcoming project, ready to hand to engineers or agents.
Enrollment
Enrollment opens with the marketplace launch. Join the waitlist and you'll be first to know — cohort seats and workshop slots go to the list before they're announced publicly.
Who it's for
- Engineers who want their designs approved before they're built — and their builds to match what was approved.
- Tech leads and EMs standardizing how their teams hand work to each other and to AI coding agents.
- Founders and PMs who need a precise way to turn product thinking into buildable, verifiable work.
- AI-forward teams using coding agents daily, where prompt quality is now the bottleneck on output quality.
- Consultants and agencies who scope fixed-price work and need the scope to hold.
- Students of the craft — the discipline transfers to any language, stack, or company.