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FDE engineering and delivery curriculum

Twelve modules follow the engagement. The expanded Chinese notes include explanations, engineering examples, cases, assignments and review criteria; weeks five and nine are technical deep dives.

FOR FDE PRACTITIONERS100 expanded Chinese teaching sectionsPrerequisites ↗

Four delivery phases

Discovery and judgmentW01–03

Scope and semantics

Qualification, discovery, metrics and scope

Business and agent modelingW04–06

Data and advisory agent

Adapters, ontology, tools and data boundaries

Execution and productionW07–09

Actions and production

Evaluation, controlled actions and operations

Acceptance and reuseW10–12

Acceptance and product feedback

Attribution, retrospective, assets and defense

Twelve weeks is a learning structure, not a guaranteed deployment timeline. Allow time for implementation, model integration and review; reading progress is not assessment.
Discovery and judgment
01
PHASE 1

FDE role and project qualification

Qualification · Stakeholders · Fit/gap · Environment

  • Translate AI ambition into a broken job
  • Four gates for project fit
  • The delivery–product boundary
  • Make the first commitment testable
Output: Fit memo + fit/gap register + run evidenceRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Discovery and judgment
02
PHASE 1

Discovery and business modeling

Interviews · Evidence ledger · Stakeholders · Ontology draft

  • Interview an incident, not an aspiration
  • Separate facts, interpretations and incentives
  • Map influence and actual involvement
  • Model nouns, relationships and actions
Output: Interview ledger + stakeholder map + ontology v0Read module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Discovery and judgment
03
PHASE 1

Metrics and delivery scope

Metric contracts · Executable definitions · SOW · Change

  • Connect the north star to an actionable job
  • Eight fields in a metric contract
  • Prioritize by evidence and constraints
  • Scope of work is a shared understanding
Output: Metric contract + scope draft + executable metric testsRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Business and agent modeling
04
PHASE 2

Data profiling and tenant adaptation

Profiling · Quarantine · Data contracts · Thin-slice demo

  • Profile defects that change decisions
  • Treat the adapter as a contract boundary
  • Prove one data chain before a full platform
  • Make the demo reveal useful disagreement
Output: Data diagnosis + adapter + first replayable sliceRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Business and agent modeling
05
PHASE 2DEEP DIVE

Ontology and the advisory agent

Identity · Semantic layer · Retrieval · Advisory tools

  • Entity resolution: examine false merges
  • Ontology makes data actionable
  • RAG and metrics answer different questions
  • MCP connects tools; it does not define the task
Output: Ontology and semantic config + tools + advisory MVP design and tracesRead module ↗
10 expanded Chinese sections
Business and agent modeling
06
PHASE 2

Data security and deployment design

Data flows · Field access · Utility tests · Deployment

  • Trace the complete data journey
  • Masking, encryption and anonymity differ
  • Enforce permissions outside the model
  • Cloud, private and hybrid are tradeoffs
Output: Security design + permission tests + deployment decisionRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Execution and production
07
PHASE 3

Agent evaluation and scope change

Datasets · Graders · Regression · Release gates

  • Evaluate the system completing the task
  • Three test sets protect different boundaries
  • Use complementary graders
  • Turn objections into the next test
Output: Evaluation sets + regression report + change proposalRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Execution and production
08
PHASE 3

Action agents and operational integration

Coupons and tags · Confirmation · Idempotency · Feedback

  • An action is a precise contract
  • Separate autonomy from risk
  • Retries, rollback and compensation differ
  • Adoption comes from fitting the job
Output: Action contract + failure tests + adoption ledgerRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Execution and production
09
PHASE 3DEEP DIVE

Production engineering and launch review

Guardrails · Observability · Rollout · Cost · Handover

  • Six dimensions of readiness
  • Guard inputs, tools and outputs
  • Use traces to locate failures
  • Design rollout, economics and handover together
Output: Launch pack: checks, runbook, cost model and canary planRead module ↗
10 expanded Chinese sections
Acceptance and reuse
10
PHASE 4

Attribution and project acceptance

Acceptance · Observation windows · Controls · Outcomes

  • Three evidence layers are not interchangeable
  • Design attribution before calculating it
  • Released hours are not automatically cash savings
  • Outcome-linked acceptance needs shared boundaries
Output: Attribution analysis + acceptance pack + outcome boundariesRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Acceptance and reuse
11
PHASE 4

Retrospective and product feedback

Failure modes · Asset layers · Product feedback · Transfer

  • A retrospective that preserves evidence
  • Audit six delivery failure patterns
  • Platform, business agents, FDE and enablement
  • Test reuse with a second scenario
Output: Retrospective + asset layers + transfer playbookRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
Acceptance and reuse
12
PHASE 4

Capstone defense and competency review

Reproduction · Stakeholder review · Decisions · Portfolio

  • Hand the project to another person
  • Defend why, not only what
  • Assess competence, not certificate theater
  • Make growth and portfolio claims verifiable
Output: Capstone pack + defense materials + growth recordRead module ↗
8 expanded Chinese sections
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