Forward Deployed Engineering

Overview

The FDE workflow joins technical integration, operating-model design, evidence review, and safe rollout.

• Frame outcomes and non-goals.
• Map systems, owners, data classes, and constraints.
• Establish read-only discovery.
• Validate opportunities with domain owners.
• Pilot behind approval and rollback gates.
• Transfer ownership with runbooks and measurable acceptance criteria.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.