Ask Me Anything: Solution Designer & Solution Builder Edition

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Last month, we launched the new Delivery Roles: Solution Designer & Solution Builder.
New skills. New ways of working. New opportunities to bridge the gap between business vision and technical execution.

But, what does that mean, exactly? Whether you are wondering:
• “Is the Solution Designer role right for me?”
• “How does Solution Builder differ from today’s System Architect roles?”
• “What skills should I focus on first?”
• “How do Blueprint and Infinity fit into all of this?”
• Or something we haven’t thought of yet..

You have 24 hours starting Tuesday, July 21st to ask Pega experts your questions. Pega SMEs including Jayakumar Soundarajan, Raj Upadhyay, Brijesh Rajak, Amey Thombre, Brad Tanner, Di Smith-Knowles, and Mark Hurd will be monitoring this conversation to answer questions, share perspectives, and discuss what these new roles families mean for practitioners, teams, and the future of delivery.

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So, jump in. Be curious. Challenge assumptions.
What’s on your mind?
:backhand_index_pointing_down: Post your questions below when the clock starts on July 21st. Change the notifications from Normal to Watching so you don’t miss a beat when our AMA opens.

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How this maps to (or is different to) Forward Deployed Engineer model?

FDE is taking industry by storm, all big players are investing in setting up teams (or even whole companies) consisting of FDEs.

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Hi Kamil. I appreciate your enthusiasm :slightly_smiling_face: … as a reminder the AMA doesn’t open until July 21st, but this is a hot topic so it is timely to respond :slightly_smiling_face:
Take a look at the blog I posted a few weeks ago on our announcement of Solution Designer and how it is different than an FDE. I wrote it because of the hype around FDE, but we chose to focus on the Solution Designer role to address the design thread that causes a gap between business intent and and the production-ready application… and Blueprint is the powerful tool that enables Solution Designers to close that gap. We have been talking about the skills and role of FDE, which we believe are advanced Solution Builders/LSAs that should be partnering with the Solution Designer early in the design and project lifecycle process. All starting in Blueprint and now can more seamlessly than ever flow directly into Pega Infinity Studio.

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I am too impatient. Thanks for answering earlier :slight_smile: