This module establishes why orchestration is a distinct engineering discipline. You will learn to identify the specific failure modes that occur between agents—not within them—such as unbounded delegation, context drift, and silent deadlocks. We map these to real enterprise costs.

Through the Orchestration Maturity Ladder, you will diagnose your current system's coordination gaps. The goal is to shift from seeing random failures to recognizing systematic orchestration faults, framing the precise engineering problems the rest of the course will solve.