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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Estimate and Plan a 6-Week MVP for a Local Logistics Startup
Read the product brief and decompose it into 8-12 modules (driver app, dispatcher console, shipper portal, billing, etc.). Estimate each module using 3-point estimation (optimis…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Risk Management
Software Engineering Foundations - DesignBeginnerNew
Design the Architecture for a Library Management System
Read the 30-page replacement RFP. Author a 15-page architecture document covering the C4 model levels 1-3 (context, container, component) for the new system: web app, mobile app…
- Software Architecture
- C4 Model
- Data Modeling
Software Engineering Foundations - CodeBeginnerNew
Build and Ship a Bug-Tracker MVP with Full CI/CD
Week 1: write a 1-page SRS + Figma wireframes for 5 screens (login, bug list, bug detail, file bug, dashboard). Week 2-3: implement with Next.js + Supabase + Tailwind, with unit…
- Full Stack Development
- Requirements Engineering
- Ci Cd
Software Engineering Foundations - StrategyBeginnerNew
Maintenance Plan for a Donated NGO Web Platform
Run an inventory: dependencies (with known-CVE check), secret exposure, test coverage, deploy process, observability, and on-call. Author a 12-month maintenance plan covering pr…
- Software Maintenance
- Dependency Management
- Security Hardening
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Estimate and Schedule a 16-Week Custom CRM for an Agency Client
Read the 22-page SOW (statement of work). Decompose into a 3-level work-breakdown structure (~80-110 leaf tasks). Estimate each leaf using 3-point (optimistic/most-likely/pessim…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Work Breakdown Structure
Software Project Management - DesignBeginnerNew
Organize a Distributed Team Across 4 Timezones
Audit the current state via 8 interviews (4 in SF, 2 in Warsaw, 2 in Bangalore). Design 4-5 squads each owning a domain end-to-end (not split across timezones for handoff). Buil…
- Team Management
- Distributed Teams
- Communication Design
Software Project Management - StrategyBeginnerNew
PMO Pilot for a Mid-Cap Engineering Org
Audit 4 pilot teams over 1 week: backlog, work-in-flight, cross-team dependencies, ad-hoc requests, slip history. Design a lightweight PMO covering: portfolio view (Notion + Lin…
- Pmo Governance
- Portfolio Management
- Intake Design
Software Project Management - 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
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Build an End-to-End Test Suite for a Checkout Flow
Inventory the last 6 months of production checkout incidents (anonymized export provided). Pick the top 7 user journeys (1 happy path + 6 highest-incident edge cases) and write …
- End To End Testing
- Playwright
- Ci Cd
Software Testing and Quality Assurance - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Risk-Based Test Strategy for a Telehealth Release
Run a risk-scoring workshop with the 3 QA engineers and 2 tech leads (template provided). For each of the 7 modules, score probability of failure, customer impact, and regulator…
- Risk Based Testing
- Test Strategy
- Test Planning
Software Testing and Quality Assurance - StrategyBeginnerNew
Negotiate a Debt-Paydown Budget Inside a Roadmap
Pick 3 well-known debt items (e.g., flaky tests blocking deploys, manual tenant provisioning, a legacy notification service). For each, model the carrying cost in engineer-hours…
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
- Refactoring Budgets
Technical Debt Management - DesignBeginnerNew
Architecture Decision Records for a Modernization Program
Read 18 weeks of architecture-channel Slack history and 6 architecture-review meeting notes to inventory decisions already made. Backfill 12 ADRs using Michael Nygard's template…
- Architecture Decision Records (Adrs)
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Interactive Figma Prototype for a Wealth-Onboarding Flow
Audit the contractor's static Figma file for inconsistencies (typography scale, spacing tokens, missing states). Restructure into a working design system using Figma variables f…
- Figma
- Interactive Prototyping
- Design Systems
User Interface Design and Prototyping - 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 - DesignBeginnerNew
Design-System Component Library in Figma for a Travel Brand
Audit the existing app across the 7 squads to inventory every variant of each component (screenshot grid). For the 12 priority components, design canonical variants using Figma …
- Design Systems
- Figma
- Component Libraries
User Interface Design and Prototyping - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Booking Web App for a Boutique Hotel Group
Design the data model (properties, rooms, availability, bookings, guests). Build the Next.js app with the App Router: 4 public pages (search, results, room detail, checkout), 1 …
- Nextjs
- React
- REST API Design
Web Application Development - CodeBeginnerNew
REST API + Admin Dashboard for a Tutoring Marketplace
Map the 5 operator workflows by shadowing 2 operators for 4 hours (recordings provided). Design REST endpoints (Open API spec) covering each workflow with role-based scopes (ope…
- REST API Design
- Vuejs
- Rbac
Web Application Development - CodeBeginnerNew
Performance Optimization for a Slow Storefront
Run Lighthouse + WebPageTest baselines on 3 representative pages (home, product detail, cart). Set up Real User Monitoring (RUM) via Vercel Analytics or web-vitals.js. Ship 5 di…
- Web Performance
- Web Performance (Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals)
- Nextjs
Web Application Development - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cellular IoT NB-IoT vs LTE-M Choice for Smart Metering
Define 6 evaluation axes: indoor / basement coverage (MCL / Maximum Coupling Loss target), battery life (15-year), data cadence (1 message every 4 hours), mobility (static), MNO…
- Nb Iot
- Lte M
- Cellular Iot
Wireless and Mobile Networks - CodeBeginnerNew
Calibrate a Multi-Camera Rig for Warehouse Robotics
You will design and prototype a calibration workflow using a printed ChArUco board (a chessboard with embedded ArUco markers). You receive a sample dataset of 200 raw frames per…
- Camera Calibration
- Multi View Geometry
- Opencv
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Robust Image Classifier for a Climate-Tech Satellite Startup
You receive a labeled dataset of about 25,000 Sentinel-2 patches (positive = illegal construction visible, negative = not). The dataset is split by region AND by season so you c…
- Data Augmentation
- Deep Learning
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Advanced Deep Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Stack Five Models for a Kaggle-Style Forecasting Bake-Off
You receive a pseudonymized dataset of 24 months of daily shipment volumes across about 200 origin-destination lanes plus weather and holiday features. Train 5 base models, use …
- Ensemble Methods
- Time Series Forecasting
- Feature Engineering
Advanced Machine Learning - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Hyperparameters with Bayesian Optimization on a Tight Budget
You receive a B2B-SaaS churn dataset (about 12,000 customer-month rows, 38 features) and a fixed sweep budget of 40 trials per model family. Implement a Bayesian optimizer (Optu…
- Bayesian Optimization
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Ensemble Methods
Advanced Machine Learning - StrategyBeginnerNew
Plan a Self-Improving Sales-Research Agent
Build the v0 agent: given a company URL, it gathers 5 fact bullets (recent news, headcount range, tech stack hints, hiring patterns, a recent leadership change) and drafts a 4-l…
- Ai Agents
- Agent Design
- A/B Testing & Experimentation
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