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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.
- ResearchIntermediateNew
Validate a Developer-Tooling Startup Idea from a Research Group
Recruit 18 backend developers across fintech, B2B SaaS, and devtools (6 per vertical), all currently writing test fixtures by hand. Run 30-minute problem-discovery interviews us…
- Opportunity Identification
- Customer Discovery
- Venture Building
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - StrategyIntermediateNew
Risk Register and Budget for a Regulated Mobile Banking Launch
Read the launch brief (28 pages) and the regulatory inventory (12 obligations). Build a top-25 risk register categorized (technical, security, regulatory, vendor, operational) w…
- Risk Management
- Regulatory Planning
- Scheduling
Software Project Management - ResearchSeniorNew
Performance Pay for Teachers in a Charter School Network
Your task is to design a performance pay system for teachers that links compensation to student achievement and other performance metrics. The system must address equity concern…
- Performance Pay
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Educational Measurement
Motivation and Incentives - StrategyIntermediateNew
Change Management for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Assess the current organizational culture using a provided survey (simulated data) and identify potential sources of resistance using Kotter's 8-Step Model or ADKAR. Design a 3-…
- Change Management
- Organizational Culture
- Resistance Management
Business and Industrial Psychology Develop in-demand professional skills.
Each challenge names the skills it strengthens. Over time, your profile fills with the competences a hiring manager would actually look for.
Why Ewance
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Leading a Post-Merger Cultural Integration
Your task is to develop a comprehensive cultural integration plan. You must analyze the cultural differences using a recognized framework (e.g., Hofstede, Cameron & Quinn), prop…
- Cultural Analysis
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Communication
Leadership - 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 - ResearchBeginnerNew
Stakeholder Interviews for a Hospital EHR Replacement
Run 38 structured interviews (45 min each) using a question protocol covering daily workflows, top-3 pain points, and red-line constraints (e.g., 'must not add clicks per chart'…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- User Interviews
Requirements Engineering - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Postmortem and Action-Item Tracking for a 3-Service Outage
Re-write the existing postmortem using the Google SRE blameless format: timeline (anchored to UTC), what went well, what went poorly, where we got lucky, action items (S.M.A.R.T…
- Postmortems
- Blameless Culture
- Action Item Tracking
Site Reliability Engineering - Browse challenges
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Strategy Analyst
Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
- 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 - DesignIntermediateNew
Cultural Integration After a Cross-Border Merger
Your team must design a 3-month cultural integration program for the merged entity. Constraints: budget of €50,000, must involve both French and Indian employees at all levels, …
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Merger Integration
- Program Design
Diversity and Inclusion Management - PresentationBeginnerNew
Requirements Validation Workshop for a Government Permits Portal
Convert the 12 main flows in the requirements document into concrete executable scenarios (think Gherkin: Given / When / Then) with realistic data (anonymized real permits). Wal…
- Requirements Validation
- Executable Scenarios
- Gherkin
Requirements Engineering - StrategyIntermediateNew
Divestiture of a Non-Core Division in a Conglomerate
As a senior M&A consultant hired by GlobalTech, you must analyze HomeDevices' financial performance, identify potential buyers (strategic and financial), and recommend a divesti…
- Divestiture Strategy
- Carve Out
- Valuation
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Credentials are blockchain-anchored via LearnCoin — tamper-evident, portable, link-shareable on LinkedIn and beyond.
Why Ewance
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Technical Debt Register for a Legacy Banking Monolith
Run 8 structured 45-minute engineer interviews (template provided) capturing one debt item per pain point with reproducible evidence. Run SonarQube against the monolith for a qu…
- Technical Debt
- Debt Quadrant
- Code Quality
Technical Debt Management - DesignIntermediateNew
FMEA for SaaS Platform Migration at a 40-Person Scale-Up
You are provided with a system architecture overview and a list of potential failure modes from the engineering team. Your task is to complete an FMEA worksheet: identify failur…
- Fmea
- Risk Assessment
- Mitigation Strategy
Quality and Productivity Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
Intrapreneurial Venture Launch at Siemens Energy
Your team must create a comprehensive venture proposal including a business model canvas, a resource plan, a stakeholder map, and a pitch deck. Success requires demonstrating ho…
- Business Model Canvas
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Corporate Venturing
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship - ResearchFoundationalNew
Requirements Discovery for a Restaurant Inventory App
Conduct 5 semi-structured interviews (45 minutes each) across line cook, kitchen manager, bar manager, store manager, and group operations. Synthesize findings into 5 user perso…
- Requirements Engineering
- User Interviews
- Use Case Modeling
Software Engineering Foundations - StrategyIntermediateNew
5G Network Slicing Strategy for a Smart-Port Pilot
Inventory the 3 workloads with concrete numbers (e.g., 'straddle carriers: 12 ms one-way latency, 99.999 percent availability, 50 Mbps uplink'). Design 3 5G network slices (eMBB…
- 5g Network Slicing
- Cellular Networks
- Qos Design
Wireless and Mobile Networks - PresentationSeniorNew
Negotiating a SaaS Enterprise Deal with a Fortune 500 Company
Your task is to prepare and execute a negotiation with the client's procurement team. You will be given a case packet with CloudFlow's pricing, costs, and strategic goals, as we…
- Enterprise Sales
- Procurement Negotiation
- Contract Negotiation
Negotiation - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Instruction Set Analysis for an Embedded Workload
Compile all 12 workload programs to both ISAs using the appropriate cross-compiler (GCC with -march=rv32e for RISC-V; provided proprietary toolchain for the in-house ISA). Repor…
- Instruction Sets
- Code Density
- Embedded Systems
Computer Architecture - StrategyIntermediateNew
CMMI Level 3 Process-Improvement Roadmap for a Defense Subcontractor
Read the company's current process documentation + recent CMMI Level 2 appraisal report. Run a gap analysis against the 11 additional Level 3 process areas (Requirements Develop…
- Cmmi
- Process Improvement
- Process Models
Software Quality and Process Improvement - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Apply the SQALE Method to a Telecom OSS Codebase
Configure SonarQube's quality profiles to match the SQALE model's 8 characteristics (testability, reliability, changeability, efficiency, security, maintainability, portability,…
- Sqale Method
- Technical Debt
- Code Quality
Technical Debt Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
Write a Product Strategy for an AI-Native Customer-Support Startup
Conduct desk research on the customer-support automation market (TAM, growth rate, competitor landscape — Zendesk, Intercom, the new AI-native cohort like Decagon and Sierra). I…
- Product Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Positioning
Product Management for Software Engineers - DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Cross-Functional Team Structure for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to design a cross-functional team structure and provide a change implementation plan. Success means a structure that reduces handoffs, empowers teams, and preserves…
- Organizational Structure Design
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
Organizational Behavior (Graduate) - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Human-Preference Study Comparing Two Coding Assistants
Design a blinded paired-comparison study: 12 developer participants, each gets the same 8 realistic coding tasks (refactor, write a function, debug, test), each task is solved b…
- Experiment Design
- Statistical Evaluation
- Human Evaluation
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