Curriculum · twenty units · five tracks
FDE training outline
Every module in this console mapped into a teachable sequence. Each unit carries its own objectives, teaching flow, hands-on lab, assessment and the artifact the participant walks out with. Run the whole arc as a three-day bootcamp, or pull a subset for an executive intensive.
$ python -m fde_toolkit --outline
Total teaching time
14h 45m
across 20 units
Tracks
5
Foundations · Context · Agency · Governance · Delivery
Labs
20
one hands-on lab per unit
Artifacts produced
20
client-usable output per unit
Sequence
20 units · 14h 45m
01 · Overview
Foundations · 20 min
Orientation to the console: the module grid, the day arc and how the FDE role differs from SE, SA and DS.
$ python -m fde_toolkit
Learning objectives
- ›State the FDE mandate in one sentence and contrast it with three adjacent roles
- ›Navigate every module from the grid and its matching CLI subcommand
- ›Explain why every simulation here is deterministic and offline
Teaching flow
- 1.Cold open: a deployment that failed for non-model reasons
- 2.Role comparison table
- 3.Walk the module grid
- 4.Set the day contract
Lab
Each participant opens the console and reaches three modules unaided.
Assessment
One-line answer: what does an FDE optimise for that an ML engineer does not?
Artifact
Agreed day agenda pinned in the room chat.
Tracks
what each strand is for
Foundations
4h 5mWhat the role is, what the stack is, and how the room is set up to work.
Overview · Briefing · Deep dive · Data centre · Skill stack
Context
3h 35mGetting enterprise reality — schemas, documents, telemetry — into a model's working set.
Live board · Dataset · Ontology · Memory · RAG
Agency
3hLetting the system act: tools, routing, loops and multi-step orchestration.
Tools · Routing · ReAct · DAG
Governance
2h 35mGuardrails, decisions, evidence and regulator-grade replay.
Policy + Audit · Replay · SEOS
Delivery
1h 30mRunning it live in front of a client and capturing what broke.
Cohort · Diagnostics · Retro
Delivery formats
same units, different room
One-day executive intensive
6.5 h7 unitsFor sponsors and architects who need the shape of the system, not the keyboard time.
Three-day practitioner bootcamp
19 h20 unitsThe full arc. Day 1 foundations and context, day 2 agency, day 3 governance and delivery.
Five-day forward-deployment residency
30 h + client work20 unitsBootcamp plus two days building the artifacts against the client's own schemas, policies and telemetry.
