Choose the Prototype Type That Best Reduces the Biggest Remaining Uncertainty

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1Define the FDE Role and Its Boundaries 2Understand the End-to-End FDE Engagement Lifecycle 3Balance Customer Needs, Feasibility, Product, and Outcomes 4Identify the Core Skills and Behaviors for FDE Work 5Introduce the Running Customer Scenario

6Run a Stakeholder Discovery Sequence Across End Users, Business Owners, and Security/Privacy Stakeholders 7Capture the Current-State Workflow and Define the Target Job to Be Done With Measurable Outcomes 8Build a Constraints Inventory Covering Latency, Cost, Integration, Audit, and Change-Management Requirements 9Perform a Data Reality Check Covering Sources, Access, Permissions, PII, Retention, Quality, and Freshness 10Write the Problem Statement and Initialize the Risk Register With Key Risks, Owners, Assumptions, and Open Questions

11Draft a Solution Options Memo With Defensible Tradeoffs 12Define the Minimal Workflow and UX Pattern 13Specify Integration Requirements That Will Make or Break Delivery 14Define Metrics and Acceptance Thresholds That Stakeholders Trust 15Build an Evaluation Plan With Offline, Online, and Regression Gates

16Choose the Prototype Type That Best Reduces the Biggest Remaining Uncertainty

17Write a Prototype Plan Covering Hypotheses, Success Checks, Required Data, Demo Flow, and Constraints 18Run Structured Feedback Loops Using a Rubric Tied to Success Metrics and Update the Backlog Based on Findings 19Control Scope by Evaluating Change Requests Against Goals, Non-Goals, Assumptions, Risks, and Timeline

20Map Major AI Failure Modes and Threats to Business Risk 21Use OWASP LLM Top 10 to Prioritize Threats 22Choose Mitigations: Controls, Permissions, and Escalation 23Add Regression Tests, Release Gates, and Monitoring 24Build a Production Readiness Checklist for LLM Apps 25Package the Handoff: Ownership, Runbook, and Backlog

26Write a Phased Rollout and Adoption Plan 27Define the Measurement Plan for Business and Quality Metrics 28Create an Exec Readout That Drives Decisions 29Finalize the Handoff Package and Roadmap Feedback Loop

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Choose the Prototype Type That Best Reduces the Biggest Remaining Uncertainty