What this is
Origin
FDEBlog was born upon observing an increase over time in demand for information about what FDE is, along with healthy questions about how FDE helps organizations. As notable events occur, or information becomes available, about which it appears potentially useful to comment, to share a perspective, or to note a handy link, those kinds of things can occur here.
Access model
FDEBlog is a public blog anyone can read.
- Access to FDEBlog is like FDEDictionary: Anyone can read. Public contributions on FDEBlog (e.g., comments) are moderated to help ensure quality.
- This openness is unlike FDEUp, which is the umbrella for more private tools intended for FDE practitioners and aligned community to engage amongst themselves behind a gate of trust and their choice of pseudonymity or real names, via FDETalk (the custom chat app), FDEList (the email listserv), and the FDESocial (the light professional networking component), which are all invitation-only and private.
Overview
In general, it is hoped that this blog encourages or assists people working at the edge of engineering, customers, product, and operations, as well as the people and organizations whom may be helped by those professionals.
- FDEBlog may publish practical explainers, case studies, career notes, and opinionated essays about Forward Deployed Engineering: what it is, how the work is changing, and how practitioners can get better at it.
Contributing
Want to be a guest author? Or suggest one? FDEBlog is open to receiving input or sharp guest posts from FDEs, executives, clients of FDEs. To pitch or submit a draft, please email hi@fdeup.com.
Comment policy
FDEBlog is the benevolent dictator of comments.
- Moderation is not ideal, but is a reality.
- Comments must be nice and must be professional. No mean or immature comments are allowed.
- Human commenters only, please.
- To comment, please supply a name and email address in in the form fields where requested. These may be pseuds or alts, but they should still represent you somehow; what if the admin wants to email you to request clarification on something before approving? Comments left with clearly bad email addresses maybe discarded.
Privacy
Privacy: FDEBlog runs on standard blog software with moderated comments. If you comment, FDEBlog only uses the information you provide to review, publish, and respond to your comment. Your data as a user of the site is not sold, used to run ads, or used for any other marketing related purposes.