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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
What FDE Leadership Owns
- Focusing on outcomes rather than resource utilization
- Managing the balance between delivery and product
- Defining mandate, reporting lines, and sponsorship
Pod Design and Staffing
- Pod structure, size, and level of autonomy
- Combining skills across engineering, data, and domain areas
- Ensuring rotation and continuity between engagements
Hiring and Assessing FDEs
- Identifying signals of deployment aptitude
- Designing interviews and work samples
- Onboarding into live engagements
Engagement Economics
- Scoping, effort estimation, and margin management
- Comparing time and materials versus outcome-based pricing
- Portfolio mix and managing concentration risk
The Internal FDE Playbook
- Standardizing stages, gates, and deliverables
- Defining completion criteria and quality standards
- Maintaining an active and relevant playbook
Vendor FDE versus Internal Capability
- Identifying where vendor teams add the most value
- Contracting for effective knowledge transfer
- Building capabilities that persist beyond the engagement
Reusable Accelerators and Blueprints
- Reference architectures and starter repositories
- Pre-approved security and integration patterns
- Governing shared assets
Adoption and Outcome Governance
- Tracking adoption metrics and reporting to executives
- Establishing steering groups with genuine decision-making authority
- Intervening in stalled engagements
Risk, Escalation, and Failure Patterns
- Identifying failure modes at different engagement stages
- Defining escalation paths and stopping rules
- Conducting post-engagement reviews that drive practice improvement
Building the Practice
- Career paths for forward deployed engineers
- Establishing standards, community, and knowledge sharing
- Developing a twelve-month capability roadmap
Requirements
- Experience managing engineers or technical delivery teams
- Involvement in customer-facing engagements
- Familiarity with commercial decisions, including scoping and pricing
- While no coding is required, technical fluency is beneficial
Target Audience
- Engineering managers leading forward deployed teams
- Delivery directors and practice leads
- Heads of applied AI or solutions engineering
- Transformation leaders developing internal deployment capabilities
