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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
What FDE Leadership Owns
- Focus on outcomes rather than utilisation
- Managing the tension between delivery and product
- Mandate, reporting lines, and sponsorship
Pod Design and Staffing
- Pod shapes, size, and autonomy
- Skill mix across engineering, data, and domain
- Rotation and continuity between engagements
Hiring and Assessing FDEs
- Indicators of deployment aptitude
- Interview design and work samples
- Onboarding into a live engagement
Engagement Economics
- Scoping, effort, and margin
- Time and materials versus outcome-based pricing
- Portfolio mix and concentration risk
The Internal FDE Playbook
- Codifying stages, gates, and deliverables
- Definition of done and quality standards
- Maintaining the relevance of the playbook
Vendor FDE versus Internal Capability
- Identifying where vendor teams add maximum value
- Contracting for knowledge transfer
- Ensuring capability outlasts the engagement
Reusable Accelerators and Blueprints
- Reference architectures and starter repositories
- Pre-approved security and integration patterns
- Governance of shared assets
Adoption and Outcome Governance
- Adoption metrics and executive reporting
- Steering groups with genuine decision rights
- Intervening in stalled engagements
Risk, Escalation, and Failure Patterns
- Failure modes by engagement stage
- Escalation paths and stop rules
- Post-engagement reviews that drive practice improvement
Building the Practice
- Career paths for forward deployed engineers
- Standards, community, and knowledge sharing
- A twelve-month capability roadmap
Requirements
- Experience in managing engineers or technical delivery teams
- Involvement in customer-facing engagements
- Exposure to commercial decisions such as scoping and pricing
- No coding is required, although technical fluency is beneficial
Audience
- Engineering managers of forward deployed teams
- Delivery directors and practice leads
- Heads of applied AI or solutions engineering
- Transformation leaders building internal deployment capability
