PRIVATE SELF-ASSESSMENT

Find the shape of your practice.

See how your current practice maps across all six FDE competencies. The assessment stays in your browser and needs no account.

6 axes / About 3 minutes / No account

Step 1: Customer Context
Step 2: Technical Breadth
Step 3: Problem Framing
Step 4: Delivery Under Constraint
Step 5: Communication and Influence
Step 6: Product Feedback Loop

Step 1 of 6

Customer Context

Reading the organization you are deployed into

Choose the description that's true today

FDE IDeployedKnows the names and roles of the people in their working sessions. Asks how the current process works before proposing a change. Brings surprises back to their lead instead of acting on them alone.FDE IIEmbeddedMaps the stakeholders around their workstream without being asked, including the ones not in the meetings. Identifies who has to change their behaviour for the work to land, and factors that into sequencing. Recognises a political objection dressed as a technical one and escalates it rather than arguing the technology.FDE IIITrustedHolds an accurate model of the account: budget cycle, competing internal initiatives, who is protecting headcount, which executive's reputation is attached to this. Uses it to time proposals and to route decisions to the person who can actually make them. Predicts internal resistance before it appears.FDE IVPrincipalReads a whole class of customer, not one account. Can say what is structurally true about deployments in this sector and what changes between them. Advises sales and product on which customers are winnable and which will fail regardless of engineering effort, and is right often enough that people plan around it.Not yetNone of these descriptions is consistently true today.