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The end-to-end workflow you'd own
Put this idea into your own words: "The FDE lifecycle is a loop you run per engagement: discover, design, ship thin, harden, productize."
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The FDE lifecycle is a loop you run per engagement: discover, design, ship thin, harden, productize. Each stage has a distinct deliverable and skipping the first one is how good engineers build the wrong thing fast.
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The Engagement Loop
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Run this per engagement. Hardening is the gate that turns a prototype into a production system.
A thin end-to-end version in days does two things a thorough plan cannot. It surfaces the gnarly integration problems early, while you still have time to react. And it gives a skeptical senior engineer something real to push on, which converts them from an audience into a collaborator.
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