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Stakeholder Management & Influence Challenges
Stakeholder Management & Influence challenges put you in the room where decisions get made across teams. You'll develop skills in Active Listening, Stakeholder Communication, and Stakeholder Mapping, run Cross-functional collaboration, and clarify ownership with RACI Charts.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Influence without authority, Conflict Awareness, Multi-party negotiation, and Structured negotiation (BATNA) — practicing real Stakeholder management the way effective operators do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Custom Cryptographic Protocol
Read the 22-page protocol spec, the Go reference implementation (around 4,000 lines), and the test vectors. Run a structured review covering: primitive choices (which cipher, MA…
- Applied Cryptography
- Cryptographic Audit
- Protocol Analysis
Applied Cryptography - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Versioning Strategy for a Public REST API
Receive the OpenAPI spec for the 14 endpoints, 8 months of partner-support tickets tagged 'breaking-change', and the partner-mix breakdown (which endpoints which partner uses). …
- REST API Design
- REST API Design
- API Versioning
API Design and GraphQL - DesignFoundationalNew
Stakeholder Workshop on AI Risk for a Public-Sector Pilot
You receive a description of the pilot (24/7 LLM chatbot answering questions on municipal services in Spanish and Catalan). Design a 3-hour workshop for around 25 mixed-stakehol…
- Stakeholder Management
- Workshop Design
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - StrategyIntermediateNew
Corporate Innovation Pilot Design for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Audit year-1: review the 14 pilots' charters, outcomes, and sponsor commitment. Identify the structural failures (likely: no sponsor with budget ownership, no scale-up criteria …
- Innovation Management
- Pilot Program Design
- Stakeholder Communication
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real industry context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Scrum Transition Plan for a Warsaw Fintech
Produce a 90-day Scrum transition plan covering three squads (Payments Core, Merchant Onboarding, Risk & Compliance). Define how Product Owner and Scrum Master roles will be sta…
- Agile / Scrum Ceremonies
- Change Management
- Backlog Design
Agile Project Management - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Lab-Automation Pipeline for a Bangalore Materials Startup
Design (not build) the full closed-loop lab pipeline: data layer (LIMS plus experiment store), model layer (a surrogate plus an acquisition function such as Expected Improvement…
- Systems Architecture
- Active Learning
- Mlops Design
AI for Science and Engineering - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cache Configuration Study for a Memory-Bound Workload
Profile the existing inner loop on a workstation with perf to baseline L1/L2/L3 miss rates and miss latencies. Run the same loop through gem5's classic cache model under 6 confi…
- Caches
- Memory Subsystems
- Performance Modeling
Computer Architecture - StrategyBeginnerNew
Non-Market Strategy for Boston D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a junior strategy consultant hired by Glow Naturals. Your task is to develop a non-market strategy that includes: (1) a stakeholder mapping and engagement plan, (2) a po…
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Public Policy
- Non Market Strategy
Business, Government and Society - Browse challenges
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Product Manager
Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
TCP Congestion Control Comparison on a Long-Fat Network
Set up two Linux test hosts in Sydney + Frankfurt cloud regions (or one host pair with tc-netem emulating 280ms RTT). Run iperf3 transfers using CUBIC and BBR at 4 loss rates (0…
- Tcp Ip
- Congestion Control
- Performance Testing
Computer Networks - StrategyIntermediateNew
Requirements Management for a 2-Year Banking Core Migration
Pick a requirements-management tool (Jama Connect, Polarion, or a Confluence + Jira pattern) and justify the choice against the bank's audit + compliance needs. Define a metamod…
- Requirements Management
- Traceability
- Governance
Requirements Engineering - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Defect-Trend Analysis and Quality Action Plan for an EV Charging Platform
Pull 18 months of defect data from Jira + the field-incident system + customer-service tickets. Categorize defects by component, severity, and root-cause taxonomy. Run statistic…
- Defect Analysis
- Statistical Process Control
- 5 Whys & Fishbone Root Cause Analysis
Software Quality and Process Improvement - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Draft GDPR + AI Act Data Provisions for a Training-Data Vendor
Anchor the work on (1) GDPR Articles 28 (processor obligations) and 32 (security), (2) the EU AI Regulation's data-governance article for high-risk systems, and (3) the EDPB's p…
- Data Protection Law
- Contract Redlining
- Regulatory Analysis
AI Law, Policy, and Regulation Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- PresentationIntermediateNew
Run a Cross-Team Retrospective After a Failed Launch
Design a 3-hour structured retrospective using either Liberating Structures or Norm Kerr's 'Prime Directive' framing (assume people did the best job possible with what they knew…
- Retrospectives
- Facilitation
- Incident Analysis
Agile Methods and Practices - ResearchIntermediateNew
Red-Team a Customer-Service Chatbot for Jailbreak Resistance
Use a published taxonomy of jailbreak categories (prompt injection, persona override, encoded payloads, multi-turn escalation, refusal bypass, tool-misuse). For each category, d…
- Red Team Operations
- Jailbreak Analysis
- LLM Evaluation
AI Safety and Alignment - DesignBeginnerNew
Use-Case Specification for a Marketplace Disputes Workflow
Identify 5 primary use cases (e.g., 'Buyer opens dispute within 7-day window', 'Seller counters with evidence', 'Operations escalates to refund'). For each: actors, precondition…
- Use Cases
- Cockburn Template
- Requirements Specification
Requirements Engineering - ResearchIntermediateNew
Industrial Case Study: Why a Microservices Migration Failed
Conduct 8 1-hour interviews across CTO, 3 tech leads, 2 platform engineers, 1 SRE, and the product VP. Analyze 24 months of artifacts (ADRs, RFCs, incident reports, deployment d…
- Industrial Case Study
- Qualitative Research
- Software Architecture
Advanced Software Engineering - AnalysisIntermediateNew
GDPR + AI Act Compliance Assessment for an HR-Tech Vendor
Audit the candidate-screening product against: GDPR Articles 5, 6, 13, 14, 22, 25, 32, 35; AI Act high-risk-system obligations (Annex III - employment); plus the customer's spec…
- Compliance
- Privacy Regulation
- GDPR
Information Security Management and Governance - StrategyBeginnerNew
Plan a Feature Launch with Marketing and Sales Coordination
Design a 6-week launch plan with 4 workstreams: product readiness (acceptance criteria, beta cohort selection), marketing (positioning, content, customer email), sales enablemen…
- Product Launch
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Go To Market
Product Management for Software Engineers - AnalysisIntermediateNew
ISO 25010 Self-Assessment for an Aerospace Avionics Vendor
Read the module's documentation (architecture, requirements, test reports, defect history). For each of 8 ISO 25010 characteristics (functional suitability, performance efficien…
- Iso 25010
- Quality Assessment
- Do 178c
Software Quality and Process Improvement - StrategyBeginnerNew
Aligning Product and Sales for Enterprise Growth
Your task is to analyze the current misalignment between product and sales teams, identify key friction points, and propose a structured framework (e.g., RACI matrix, OKRs, or a…
- Cross Functional Alignment
- OKR Setting
- Incentive Design
Strategy Implementation and Execution - ResearchSeniorNew
Greenwashing Risk in a Fast Fashion Brand's Sustainability Campaign
You are a corporate responsibility analyst at TrendWear. The CEO wants to respond to the accusations without withdrawing the Green Line. Your task is to conduct a life-cycle ass…
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Sustainability Reporting
- Crisis Communication
Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design Critique Process for a Growth Design Team
Design a 60-minute weekly design-critique format covering: pre-read window, presenter prep template, time-boxed feedback rounds (start-stop-continue or 'I like, I wish, I wonder…
- Design Critique
- Facilitation
- Design Systems
User Interface Design and Prototyping - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Quality Metrics Program for a Medical-Device Software Team
Read the team's QMS (Quality Management System) documents and the IEC 62304 software lifecycle requirements. Design a metric catalog of 12-15 metrics covering process (review-co…
- Quality Metrics
- Iec 62304
- Process Improvement
Software Quality and Process Improvement - DesignBeginnerNew
Stand Up a Business-IT Alignment Operating Model
Map the current demand flow from intake to delivery (or non-delivery) and identify the top 5 break points (likely candidates: no triage, no prioritization frame, undersized capa…
- Business It Alignment
- Demand Management
- Portfolio Prioritization
IT Management and Governance
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Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
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Accept the one that fits your goals.
Step 03
Work through it with AI Copilot guidance.
Step 04
Submit for structured evaluation.
Step 05
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