Who attends Wabacu?
The program is designed for a specific kind of professional: someone who regularly needs things built or analyzed by a technical team, but who does not have a technical background themselves.
Which roles does this program fit?
The program draws participants from several distinct roles. Each brings slightly different challenges, but the core communication gap is the same.
Product managers and product owners
You live at the intersection of business and engineering. You write user stories, manage backlogs, and attend sprint reviews. The challenge is that the format you use for requirements often contains gaps that only become visible when development is already underway.
The program gives you a structured way to audit your own requirements before they reach the team, and techniques for running refinement sessions that surface problems earlier.
Project managers on data and analytics initiatives
Data projects fail for reasons that are rarely technical. Unclear definitions of success, shifting scope, and stakeholders who cannot agree on what a metric means all contribute more than engineering mistakes do.
The program covers how to document data requirements with enough precision that analysts can start without a series of clarifying conversations, and how to manage stakeholder expectations around data delivery timelines.
Operations managers requesting engineering work
You know what outcome you need. You do not always know how to describe it in a way that translates into a buildable specification. The gap between "I need this to work differently" and a clear engineering brief is where most requests get stuck.
The program teaches you how to bridge that gap: how to describe the problem rather than the solution, and how to give engineers the context they need to propose the right approach.
What signals suggest this program is relevant?
These are common situations that managers describe when explaining why they enrolled.
Your requirements documents generate more questions than they answer.
Engineers deliver exactly what you asked for, but not what you needed.
You find out about blockers and problems late, often after they have already caused delays.
Meetings between your team and the engineering team feel unproductive or tense.
You are not sure how to push back on a technical estimate or decision without damaging the relationship.
The scope of your projects drifts in ways that are hard to explain or control.
Who is this program not designed for?
The program is not a technical training. It does not teach programming, data engineering, or systems design. Participants who already have a technical background will not find the core content useful.
It is also not a general project management course. It does not cover methodologies like PMP, PRINCE2, or Scrum certification. The focus is narrow and specific: communication across the technical divide.
If you are already confident writing precise requirements and running productive alignment sessions with engineering teams, this program is not the right investment of your time.
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