Cost Analysis
If you like applying Cost Analysis, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
IT Management and Governance - DesignIntermediateNew
Sustainable Packaging for a D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a design thinking consultant for Glowly. Your task is to research customer attitudes toward sustainable packaging, brainstorm packaging alternatives, create prototypes (…
- Sustainable Design
- Packaging Engineering
- User Research
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Evaluate an Agent Suite on the SWE-Bench-Style Coding Benchmark
You receive a sandboxed set of 50 small repo-modification tasks (test-passing as the success signal). Run 3 open-source agent frameworks (e.g., OpenHands, SWE-agent, and Aider) …
- LLM Agents
- Agent Evaluation
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
IT Consulting Engagement: Cost-Out Diagnostic for a Logistics Group
Receive an anonymized spend cube (vendor, category, country, contract end date), an infra utilization extract (compute, storage, network), and the application portfolio. Conduct…
- It Consulting
- Cost Analysis
- Vendor Management
IT Management and Governance Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Scaling a Sydney D2C Cosmetics Startup's Data Pipeline
You are tasked with designing a cloud-based data pipeline for GlowUp. The pipeline must ingest real-time user events (page views, purchases, returns) from web and mobile apps, p…
- Cloud Computing
- Apache Spark
- Nosql
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Integer Programming for Cloud Resource Allocation
Your task is to formulate an integer programming model to select the number of reserved instances (each type: compute, memory, storage) and allocate on-demand instances monthly.…
- Integer Programming
- Python
- Pulp
Operations Research and Optimization - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capacity Planning for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to forecast ticket volumes using historical data (provided), determine the required number of support agents, and propose a staffing plan including shift schedules …
- Capacity Planning
- Forecasting
- Workforce Management
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Feasibility Study: On-Demand 3D-Printed Spare Parts for Wind Turbines
Working only from the materials provided — the WindServ maintenance case file (CF-1), the spare-parts demand and lead-time log (DS-1), the additive-manufacturing costing referen…
- Additive Manufacturing
- Supply Chain Design
- Cost Analysis
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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.
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Strategy Brief on Layer-2 Choice for a Web3 Gaming Studio
Survey the three L2 categories with 2026-current numbers: per-transaction cost at expected game throughput (around 50 TPS sustained, 500 TPS event spikes), finality latency (mat…
- Layer 2 Protocols
- Blockchain Protocols
- Research
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field Pricing Investigation for Glow Dublin's Vitamin C Serum
Treat this as a pricing investigation with two evidence sources and nothing else. First, work the company's own history: from the 'sales-history' dataset, estimate the price ela…
- Demand Elasticity
- Cost Analysis
- Pricing Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capacity Planning for a SaaS Scale-Up's Customer Support
Your task is to forecast ticket volumes based on enterprise growth projections, analyze current support capacity and performance, and propose a staffing plan that meets SLAs. Su…
- Capacity Planning
- Queuing Theory
- Workforce Management
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Trade Policy Impact on a Coffee Roaster's Supply Chain
You are a supply chain analyst. Calculate the additional cost per kg of coffee under CBAM using estimated carbon footprints. Evaluate alternative sourcing from countries with lo…
- Trade Policy Analysis
- Supply Chain Management
- Carbon Footprint Estimation
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Lean ITIL Service Desk for a Cosmetics Startup
Using the support operations snapshot (support-ops-snapshot), the twelve-month ticket log (support-ticket-log), and the executive mandate (ceo-mandate-and-budget), and drawing o…
- Itil
- Service Desk
- Incident Management
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