Learning path
Claude Forward Deployed Engineer path
Take a customer from a first use case to a working pilot, on site.
What you can do at the end
Write a pilot plan for a customer use case: the baseline you’ll measure against, the success measures you agree on before building, the part of the use case you’ll ship first, and how you’ll bring on the first wave of users.
Before you start
You build software and you have worked directly with client teams. This path shares nine courses with the Claude Developer path, so if you’ve completed that path, two courses remain, about 100 minutes in all.
Time and format
About 9.5 hours in all. Take the courses in order or one at a time.
Core
Complete a core course on this site once and it counts toward every path that includes it.
1AI Capabilities and Limitations
About 60 min. The limits you’ll be explaining to users from the first day of a pilot.
2AI Fluency for Builders
About 45 min. The 4D Framework of delegation, description, discernment, and diligence, applied to building.
3Claude Platform and Model Foundations
About 60 min. The four decisions you make before writing a prompt: entry point, capability features, model, and context.
4Choosing the right Claude model
On Claude Academy, about 10 min. Which Claude model fits which kind of task, and how each one draws on your rate limit.
Claude Academy · guardadoRole courses for building
5Claude Platform 101
About 90 min. From the first API call through the agent loop, tools, extended thinking, skills, Model Context Protocol (MCP), context management, and managed agents.
6Claude Code 101
About 60 min. The tool you prototype with in the customer’s repository.
7Claude Code in action
About 60 min. Running long, hands-off sessions in a customer’s repository and controlling them with permission modes, hooks, and verification.
8Introduction to Model Context Protocol
About 60 min. Connecting Claude to the customer’s systems.
9Introduction to agent skills
About 30 min. Packaging what works so the customer’s team can reuse it.
Role courses for delivering the pilot
10Delivery Methodology
About 40 min. Qualify the use case, design the pilot, capture the baseline, and manage adoption and risk.
11Driving enterprise adoption of Claude
About 60 min. How a customer moves from activation to scale, covering the success team, enablement, launch, and finding the next workload.
Where next
Recommended next step
Prepare for Claude Certified Developer - Foundations
The exam is the credential this path leads toward, and it counts toward partner tier in the Claude Partner Network.
- Take the prep courses.They go deeper on prompting, agents and tool use, evaluation, and security. Plan on about 13 hours.
- Register for the exam.The certification page has the exam guide and how to register.
After that
Go deeper
Optional. Related courses and tutorials that don’t count toward the path, for when you want to go further.