FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERING
FDE is pre-deployment engineering: engineers work close to real users, continuously addressing data, tools, processes, and adoption issues. The goal is not to conclude a demo but to build a hand-over-ready production capability.
Phases may be merged based on project size, but each step retains the responsible person, deliverables, and the decision to continue or not.
Interview business personnel, observe task paths, and sample inputs and outputs. Deliver a problem map, data conditions, and candidate scenarios; the client confirms the first problem, the business owner, and the current baseline.
Define roles, system connections, data flows, human confirmation points, and metrics. Deliver the implementation blueprint, dependency list, and acceptance plan; both parties confirm what is included and excluded in this phase.
Connect necessary data and tools in an authorized test environment, inviting real users to complete full tasks. Deliver a runnable version, evaluation records, and issue list; decide to proceed, narrow, or stop based on evidence.
Prepare permissions, monitoring, capacity, release, and rollback. Deliver the production version, operations manual, and acceptance records; business and technical leads jointly confirm the go-live conditions.
Review usage, quality, costs, and business metrics; update knowledge and evaluation samples. Deliver an improvement plan, training, and handover materials; clarify the system owner within the enterprise and the investment for the next cycle.
The FDE team performs the agreed engineering work; the client retains responsibility for business rules, data authorization, and key decisions.
Confirm goals, priorities, resources, and acceptance conclusions. Responsible for resolving cross-department dependencies and deciding which processes can be automated and which must remain manual.
Provide normal and abnormal samples, explain rules, and participate in prototype testing. Feedback must correspond to specific tasks, inputs, and results for reproducibility and correction.
Approve environment, accounts, and interface access; explain data scope, retention constraints, and release process; participate in permissions, security, operations, and handover checks.
Organize issue clarification, advance product, AI, integration, and experience engineering, record dependencies and risks, and convert implementation results into verifiable outcomes and documentation.
Register an account to enter your own requirements exploration space. For formal projects, an administrator creates an organization and grants project access; it is not automatically visible to all registered users.
Organize goals, current state, data conditions, and success criteria to form a basis for subsequent clarification.
Create your accountView phases, milestones, tasks, blockers, members, and next decisions in authorized projects.
Enter Client PortalCentrally view released prototypes and deliverables, submit feedback, and track versions, evaluation notes, and acceptance comments.
View My ProjectsUse knowledge preparation and production launch guides to identify current gaps and prepare informed questions for the first conversation.
Read Engineering Practice GuidesSpecific arrangements are subject to the project scope and delivery agreement confirmed by both parties.
Not necessary. Arrange on-site, remote, or hybrid collaboration based on business observation, interface collaboration, and security requirements. On-site frequency, participant roles, and response windows are confirmed in the project scope.
Record the reason for change, newly added scope, and its impact on timeline, resources, risks, and acceptance. After confirmation by the responsible person, it enters the plan; unconfirmed changes are not mixed into the committed delivery.
First distinguish whether the issue lies with insufficient data, task definition, model capability, system integration, or usage habits. Adjust scope or stop based on evaluation evidence; do not use more elaborate demos to mask infeasibility.
Deliver configuration or code, dependency documentation, operations manual, and training as agreed. Third-party accounts, licenses, rights to materials, and the scope of ongoing maintenance are clarified before the start.
Explain the most important business blockers, relevant teams, and expected timeline. No need to upload internal sensitive materials in the initial submission.
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