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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Core Responsibilities of FDE Leadership
- Focus on outcomes rather than resource utilization
- Managing the tension between delivery and product
- Defining mandate, reporting lines and executive sponsorship
Pod Design and Staffing Strategies
- Optimizing pod shapes, size and autonomy
- Blending skills across engineering, data and domain expertise
- Managing rotation and continuity between engagements
Recruiting and Evaluating FDEs
- Identifying signals of deployment aptitude
- Designing interviews and work samples
- Onboarding new hires into live engagements
Engagement Economics and Pricing
- Scoping, effort estimation and margin management
- Comparing time-and-materials versus outcome-based pricing
- Managing portfolio mix and concentration risk
Developing the Internal FDE Playbook
- Codifying stages, gates and deliverables
- Establishing definitions of done and quality standards
- Maintaining and evolving the playbook over time
Vendor FDEs versus Internal Capability
- Identifying where vendor teams add the most value
- Structuring contracts for effective knowledge transfer
- Ensuring capability remains after the engagement ends
Reusable Accelerators and Blueprints
- Utilizing reference architectures and starter repositories
- Leveraging pre-approved security and integration patterns
- Governing shared organizational assets
Adoption and Outcome Governance
- Tracking adoption metrics and executive reporting
- Empowering steering groups with real decision rights
- Strategies for intervening in stalled engagements
Risk Management, Escalation and Failure Patterns
- Understanding failure modes at each engagement stage
- Defining escalation paths and stop rules
- Conducting post-engagement reviews that drive practice improvement
Building a Sustainable Practice
- Creating career paths for forward deployed engineers
- Fostering standards, community and knowledge sharing
- Developing a twelve-month capability roadmap
Requirements
- Experience managing engineers or technical delivery teams
- Involvement in customer-facing engagements
- Exposure to commercial decisions such as scoping and pricing
- While coding is not 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 building internal deployment capability
