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

TransitioningFoundationsno prerequisites

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. 1.Cold open: a deployment that failed for non-model reasons
  2. 2.Role comparison table
  3. 3.Walk the module grid
  4. 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 5m

What 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 35m

Getting enterprise reality — schemas, documents, telemetry — into a model's working set.

Live board · Dataset · Ontology · Memory · RAG

Agency

3h

Letting the system act: tools, routing, loops and multi-step orchestration.

Tools · Routing · ReAct · DAG

Governance

2h 35m

Guardrails, decisions, evidence and regulator-grade replay.

Policy + Audit · Replay · SEOS

Delivery

1h 30m

Running 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 units

For sponsors and architects who need the shape of the system, not the keyboard time.

Three-day practitioner bootcamp

19 h20 units

The full arc. Day 1 foundations and context, day 2 agency, day 3 governance and delivery.

Five-day forward-deployment residency

30 h + client work20 units

Bootcamp plus two days building the artifacts against the client's own schemas, policies and telemetry.