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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
What FDE Leadership Owns
- Focusing on outcomes rather than utilization
- Navigating the tension between delivery and product
- Clarifying mandate, reporting lines, and sponsorship
Pod Design and Staffing
- Pod structures, size, and autonomy
- Blending skills across engineering, data, and domain expertise
- Managing 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
- Comparing time and materials versus outcome-based pricing
- Portfolio mix and concentration risk management
The Internal FDE Playbook
- Codifying stages, gates, and deliverables
- Defining 'done' and setting quality standards
- Maintaining the relevance and effectiveness of the playbook
Vendor FDE versus Internal Capability
- Identifying where vendor teams add the most value
- Contracting specifically for knowledge transfer
- Building capabilities that last 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
- Adoption metrics and executive reporting
- Establishing steering groups with genuine decision-making authority
- Intervening in stalled engagements
Risk, Escalation, and Failure Patterns
- Failure modes by engagement stage
- Escalation paths and stop rules
- Conducting post-engagement reviews that drive practice improvement
Building the Practice
- Defining career paths for forward deployed engineers
- Establishing standards, community, and knowledge sharing
- Creating a twelve-month capability roadmap
Requirements
- Experience in managing engineers or technical delivery teams
- Involvement in customer-facing engagements
- Familiarity with commercial decisions, such as scoping and pricing
- No coding skills are required, though technical fluency is beneficial
Audience
- Engineering managers leading forward deployed teams
- Delivery directors and practice leads
- Heads of applied AI or solutions engineering
- Transformation leaders building internal deployment capabilities
Custom Corporate Training
Training solutions designed exclusively for businesses.
- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
Price per private group, online live training, starting from 3200 € + VAT*
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