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Forward Deployed Engineering

For engineers who work directly with clients

How a forward deployed engineer connects a client workflow to a functioning technical solution — from discovering the real problem to a controlled pilot and handover.

Created by InaraX
Instruction language: English
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From client discovery to pilot and handover · Solution design and the business case · Applied AI and enterprise automation

Highlights for this program

10
modules
30
lessons
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What you'll learn

  • ✓What an FDE owns, and the engagement lifecycle
  • ✓Discovery by sitting beside the person who does the work
  • ✓Turning conflicting accounts into requirements you can test
  • ✓Systems thinking: following one order end to end
  • ✓Solution architecture that fits the client's systems, security and data
  • ✓ROI cases, scoping, pricing and executive presentations
  • ✓Choosing the right AI mechanism, including Power Platform and Copilot Studio
  • ✓Pilot design, adoption, monitoring and handover, ending in a capstone

Course content

3 levels • 10 modules

  • Module 1: Foundations of FDELocked
  • Module 2: Client discovery and requirements engineeringLocked
  • Module 3: Systems thinking and enterprise problem-solvingLocked

Requirements

  • Familiarity with software projects and how businesses use technology.
  • Helpful (not required): experience working with business stakeholders or clients.

Description

Forward Deployed Engineering is a level-based program (Associate → Intermediate → Advanced) that follows a client engagement from start to finish. You'll start with what a forward deployed engineer owns and how an engagement runs, then sit beside the people doing the work to find the real problem and turn it into requirements you can test. Next you'll design a solution that fits the client's systems, security and data, build the business case, and present it to executives. The final level applies AI and automation, designs a controlled pilot, plans adoption and handover, and closes with a capstone that brings the whole engagement together.

By the end of this course, you will:

  • Explain what a forward deployed engineer owns and how a client engagement runs.
  • Run client discovery and turn what you observe into requirements you can test.
  • Follow a business process end to end, and put a value and a cost on the problem.
  • Design a solution that fits the client's systems, security and data, and name how it can fail.
  • Build an ROI case, scope and price the work, and present it to executives.
  • Choose when to use AI, measure it on a test set, govern it, and take a pilot through adoption and handover.

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