Fall : 10 Weeks: Tuesdays. 9:00 - 12:00 PM in HIVE ; Benjamin Block
Prerequisites
This course can only accommodate MMM students.
Description
This hands-on course teaches how enterprise software actually gets built. Students will work through the full lifecycle of building real software products, gaining experience with the tools, workflows, and thinking patterns used by today's engineering teams — including modern agentic coding practices. Students will touch all the layers of the technical stack and see how the components come together — databases, backend logic, frontend frameworks, UX/UI, infrastructure, etc. The takeaway is an understanding of the overall system design — practical knowhow which is only becoming more valuable to leaders, designers, and builders of software products.
Over ten weeks, students build multiple real software products — MVPs that look very different at first glance (a CRM, a social app, a to-do list, a data explorer) but actually share the same underlying patterns and components. That is the central insight of the course: once you can see the patterns, you can see how every modern software product is built. Learning how those patterns combine will serve you in whatever direction you take next — leading or managing a product team, owning a product, or building something yourself.
