Learner Personas
Known: a mix of roles and technical levels at consulting firms, including engineering and project management (^q-004). These personas are a draft to validate with Microsoft and the trial firm.
Draft personas → role paths
| Persona | Typical titles | What they must be able to do after | Path | Depth in products |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Builder | Software engineer, developer | Ship features with Copilot + HVE RPI; build Foundry agents | Technical | Deep: Copilot, Foundry |
| Data & AI engineer | Data engineer, analytics engineer | Build Fabric pipelines/semantic models that feed agents | Technical | Deep: Fabric, Foundry |
| Architect / tech lead | Solution architect, tech lead | Design the solution, set HVE review gates, run evals & security review | Technical | Broad across all three |
| Delivery lead | PM, delivery manager, scrum master | Plan and run an HVE-style engagement: scoping, estimating with agents, risk, governance, client adoption | Delivery | Conceptual + hands-on Copilot basics |
| Engagement leader | Partner, director, practice lead | Sell and shape frontier AI engagements responsibly | Briefing (certificate?) | Overview |
Shared core (everyone)
- Agentic SDLC mindset and HVE RPI, hands-on with Copilot even for non-engineers
- The mock client scenario → Capstone scenario
- Responsible AI, security and data governance basics
Mixed technical levels
- Pre-assessment on the platform to place people by role and level
- Mixed teams in the room (builder + data + architect + delivery lead) that mirror a real engagement team. Delivery leads practice running the team, not writing code.
- Stretch labs for advanced learners; guided labs with checkpoints for others
Open
- Does the engagement-leader briefing earn the certificate, or attendance only? (^q-017)
- What share of the 10k is each persona? Drives Scale and Capacity Model.
- Prerequisites per path (^q-019)
Experience and Support Planning
Use Learner Placement and Support to separate engineering fluency from AI experience, assign guided or independent work, and choose from HVE Sample Labs. The existing Builder, Data & AI engineer, Architect, Delivery lead, and Engagement leader paths remain the program starting point. Explorer is a support profile that can apply across those paths; it is not an additional credential.