Information Technology Challenges
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Strangler-Fig Modernization of a Healthcare Reporting Service
Audit the report categories (around 14) and pick operating-theater utilization for the pilot extraction (high volume, moderate complexity, low regulatory blast-radius). Design t…
- Strangler Fig
- Legacy Systems
- Feature Flags
Software Evolution and Maintenance - 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 - StrategyIntermediateNew
Recover a Red-RAG Enterprise Implementation Mid-Flight
Pull 7 months of project artifacts (Jira, status reports, change requests, meeting minutes, time-tracking). Interview 6 people across the delivery team + 3 from the client side.…
- Project Recovery
- Estimation
- Scope Management
Software Project Management - 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
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- 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 - 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 - 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
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- 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
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 - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Fuzz a Memory-Unsafe Image-Parsing Library
Identify 3 critical parser entry points (DICOM dataset parser, JPEG 2000 decoder, TIFF directory parser) and write a libFuzzer harness + an AFL++ harness for each. Build with AS…
- Fuzzing
- Memory Safety
- Address Sanitizer
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Static Analysis SAST Rollout on a Fintech Codebase
Run baseline scans with Semgrep + SonarQube + Snyk Code across all 18 services. Triage the initial findings (likely 800-1,500 raw alerts) into true-positive / false-positive / i…
- Sast
- Semgrep
- Sonarqube
Software Security - DesignIntermediateNew
Threat Model a HealthTech Patient-Portal Web App
Read the 25-page redesign architecture document (auth via Clerk, Next.js front-end, FastAPI backend, Postgres, S3 for documents, webhook integration with EMRs). Build data-flow …
- Threat Modeling
- STRIDE
- Secure Design
Software Security - CodeIntermediateNew
Secure the Software Supply Chain of an Open-Source SDK
Audit the current state: dependency tree, publish process, GitHub Actions workflows, signing posture. Generate an SBOM (CycloneDX format) using Syft. Run OpenSSF Scorecard and t…
- Supply Chain Security
- Slsa
- Sbom
Software Security - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Secure-by-Design Review of a Microservices Auth Subsystem
Read the 18-page proposed auth-service design (Next.js BFF, FastAPI auth-service, Postgres for sessions + refresh, Redis for short-lived tokens, integration with Auth0 for OIDC)…
- Secure Design
- OWASP Asvs
- Oauth2
Software Security - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Property-Based Testing for a SEPA Payments Library
Read the SEPA Pain.001 XSD (XML Schema Definition) and pick 5 invariants the parser MUST preserve (e.g., 'sum of transactions equals control sum', 'IBAN passes mod-97 check', 'c…
- Property Based Testing
- Fuzz Testing
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Software Testing and Quality Assurance - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Mutation Testing on a Critical Pricing Service
Run PIT against the pricing service to get a baseline mutation score per class. Identify the 5 classes with the largest gap between line coverage and mutation score (these are t…
- Mutation Testing
- Python Or Javascript
- Junit
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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Stand Up Contract Testing for a Microservices Backend
Inventory the 18 services and pick the 6 producer-consumer pairs with the most staging breakages in the last 90 days. Stand up a Pact broker (self-hosted or PactFlow trial). For…
- Contract Testing
- Pact
- Microservices Patterns
Software Testing and Quality Assurance - 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 - 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 - 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
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