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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Scope of FDE Leadership
- Focusing on outcomes rather than mere utilization
- Navigating the balance between delivery and product responsibilities
- Establishing mandates, reporting lines and executive sponsorship
Pod Design and Staffing
- Determining pod structures, optimal sizes and autonomy levels
- Blending skills across engineering, data and domain expertise
- Managing rotation and continuity across engagements
Hiring and Assessing FDEs
- Identifying signals of deployment aptitude
- Designing interviews and selecting relevant work samples
- Onboarding new hires directly into live engagements
Engagement Economics
- Managing scoping, effort estimation and margins
- Choosing between time-and-materials and outcome-based pricing
- Balancing portfolio mix and managing concentration risk
The Internal FDE Playbook
- Documenting stages, gates and key deliverables
- Defining 'done' and setting quality standards
- Keeping the playbook current and relevant
Vendor FDEs vs. Internal Capability
- Identifying where vendor teams deliver the most value
- Structuring contracts to ensure knowledge transfer
- Building capabilities that persist beyond the engagement
Reusable Accelerators and Blueprints
- Utilizing reference architectures and starter repositories
- Leveraging pre-approved security and integration patterns
- Governing shared assets effectively
Adoption and Outcome Governance
- Tracking adoption metrics and reporting to executives
- Empowering steering groups with real decision rights
- Intervening effectively in stalled engagements
Risk, Escalation and Failure Patterns
- Understanding failure modes at different engagement stages
- Defining escalation paths and stop rules
- Conducting post-engagement reviews that drive practice improvement
Building the Practice
- Creating career paths for forward deployed engineers
- Establishing standards, community and knowledge-sharing norms
- 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
- No coding skills are required, although technical fluency is beneficial
Target Audience
- Engineering managers of forward deployed teams
- Delivery directors and practice leads
- Heads of applied AI or solutions engineering
- Transformation leaders focused on building internal deployment capability
