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Talent Acquisition & Org Design Challenges
Talent Acquisition & Org Design challenges put you inside the work of finding the right people and shaping how teams are built. You'll develop skills in ATS Workflow, Sourcing Channels, Structured Interviewing, and Calibration sessions, and surface Hiring Bias before it skews a decision.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Hiring loop architecture, Technical Interview Design, Job leveling & families, Organizational Design, Workforce & headcount modeling, and Succession planning — building Org design for transformation the way people teams actually do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Integrate DataFlow's Engineering and Product Teams
Using the team diagnostic dossier, the leadership vision memo, and the feature delivery metrics dataset provided to you, design and propose a team integration plan for DataFlow.…
- Organizational Design
- Team Dynamics
- Conflict Resolution
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Revitalizing a Legacy Pharma Company's Innovation Pipeline
Your challenge is to propose a strategy execution framework that breaks down silos between R&D, regulatory, and marketing. The framework should include a new governance structur…
- Innovation Management
- Organizational Design
- Incentive Design
Strategy Implementation and Execution - ResearchBeginnerNew
Qualitative Research for a SaaS Scale-Up's Enterprise Pivot
Your task is to design a qualitative research study for TaskFlow. Define the research questions, select a sample of 5-7 enterprise buyers (use personas provided), and create an …
- Qualitative Research
- Interview Design
- Thematic Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Continuous-Improvement Kata for a SaaS Engineering Org
Read Mike Rother's 'Toyota Kata' framework + 'The Kata Coaching Practice Guide'. Design a lightweight Improvement Kata for the 3 pilot teams: vision (engineering quality), targe…
- Continuous Improvement
- Toyota Kata
- Coaching
Software Quality and Process Improvement Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Code Review Bootcamp for an Early-Stage Mobile Team
Read the team's last 100 merged PRs (export provided) and tag the 10 worst review threads (rubber-stamp, bikeshed, missing context). Draft a 4-page code-review guideline coverin…
- Code Review
- Team Coaching
- Process Design
Software Construction - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build Mylkman's 12-Month Retail Scaling Playbook
Design an integrated 12-month scaling playbook for Mylkman's move from a direct-to-consumer and cafe-wholesale business into national grocery retail, drawing only on the four pr…
- Organizational Design
- Scaling Strategy
- Hiring Planning
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Board Composition Reform at a Family-Owned Manufacturing Firm
You are a corporate governance advisor hired by the supervisory board. Your task is to design a new board structure that includes independent directors, defines clear roles for …
- Board Structure
- Succession Planning
- Co Determination
Corporate Governance - StrategySeniorNew
Outsourcing IT Operations at a Spanish Solar Energy Firm
Using the four provided materials, build a service sourcing strategy and a provider-management framework for Helios Renovables. Read the CIO situation record to understand the p…
- Itil
- Service Strategy
- Sourcing
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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.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Three-Year Succession Plan for a Family Manufacturer
Working only from the materials you are given — a confidential company dossier describing the firm, its history, ownership, and finances; an anonymized summary of interviews wit…
- Succession Planning
- Governance Design
- Family Dynamics
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Organizational Restructuring for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-up
Your task is to design a new organizational structure for CloudFlow. You must define clear roles, reporting lines, and cross-functional teams. Consider creating a dedicated ente…
- Organizational Design
- Change Management
- Role Definition
Introduction to Business Administration - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a 12-Week LeSS Rollout for Six Product Teams
Using the LeSS rules and principles source, the leadership rollout charter, the team audit and ceremony observation notes, and the team baseline metrics dataset, design a 12-wee…
- Advanced Process Models
- Scaling Agile
- Less
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Organizational Restructuring for a SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to design a new organizational structure for DataFlow Analytics. You must interview stakeholders (simulated via personas), analyze current bottlenecks, propose a st…
- Organizational Design
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Analysis
Principles of Management 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
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Introduce XP Practices to a Legacy E-Commerce Codebase
Run a 6-week intervention with the 7-person checkout team. Week 1: baseline (current test coverage, defect-escape rate, story cycle time). Weeks 2-5: introduce TDD on all new co…
- Extreme Programming
- Test Driven Development
- Pair Programming
Agile Methods and Practices - StrategyBeginnerNew
Agile Transformation at a Paris D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to assess GlowUp's current organizational structure and leadership gaps, then propose a phased agile transformation roadmap. The plan should include specific agile …
- Agile Leadership
- Change Management
- Organizational Design
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Rescue a Stalling Scrum Team at a Series-B HealthTech
Review 8 hours of recorded ceremonies and 3 sprints of Jira data (story sizing, carry-over rate, cycle time per story, blocker tags). Diagnose the top 3 root causes (likely cand…
- Scrum
- Agile Metrics
- Retrospectives
Agile Methods and Practices - 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
Design a Kanban Flow System for a Platform Team
Map the platform team's current workflow (intake to deploy) and design a Kanban board with 5-7 columns, explicit WIP limits per column, and a class-of-service swimlane for emerg…
- Kanban
- Flow Metrics
- Process Design
Agile Methods and Practices - 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
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
IDE-Assisted Refactoring Bootcamp for a Junior Backend Team
Design a 5-day curriculum centered on 10 katas chosen for refactoring-pattern coverage (e.g., Gilded Rose for replace-conditional-with-polymorphism, Tennis kata for extract-meth…
- Refactoring
- Katas
- Ide Tooling
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Scalable Recruitment Process for a Growing Cosmetics Startup
Using the company case file, the hiring-metrics readout, the role intake notes, and the candidate-experience survey provided to you, design a recruitment process for three roles…
- Recruitment
- Job Analysis
- Interview Design
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