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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Scope of FDE Leadership
- Focusing on outcomes rather than utilisation
- Managing the tension between delivery and product
- Defining mandate, reporting lines, and sponsorship
Pod Design and Staffing
- Determining pod shape, size, and autonomy
- Balancing skills across engineering, data, and domain expertise
- Ensuring rotation and continuity between engagements
Hiring and Assessing FDEs
- Identifying signals of deployment aptitude
- Designing interviews and work samples
- Onboarding new hires into live engagements
Engagement Economics
- Managing scoping, effort, and margin
- Choosing between time and materials versus outcome-based pricing
- Optimizing portfolio mix and concentration risk
The Internal FDE Playbook
- Codifying stages, gates, and deliverables
- Establishing definitions of done and quality standards
- Maintaining an active and evolving playbook
Vendor FDE versus Internal Capability
- Identifying where vendor teams add the most value
- Structuring contracts for knowledge transfer
- Building capability that persists beyond the engagement
Reusable Accelerators and Blueprints
- Leveraging reference architectures and starter repositories
- Utilizing pre-approved security and integration patterns
- Governing shared assets effectively
Adoption and Outcome Governance
- Tracking adoption metrics and executive reporting
- Empowering steering groups with decision rights
- Intervening effectively in stalled engagements
Risk, Escalation, and Failure Patterns
- Recognizing failure modes by engagement stage
- Implementing escalation paths and stop rules
- Conducting post-engagement reviews that refine practice
Building the 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
- Participation in customer-facing engagements
- Familiarity with commercial decisions such as scoping and pricing
- Coding is not required, though 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 building internal deployment capability
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 2600 € + VAT*
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