Information Technology Challenges
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- ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Product Discovery Sprint for Logistics Dispatch Software
Using the company-brief and the customer-recruitment-packet, recruit and interview eight dispatchers across the five named freight-forwarder customers (the warm introduction ema…
- Product Discovery
- User Interviews
- Opportunity Solution Tree
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Three-Tier Pricing Proposal for an Observability Startup
Using the anonymized customer export and the current-pricing memo in the provided materials, design a replacement pricing model and prove it pays. First, analyze the 80 customer…
- Pricing Strategy
- Packaging
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Lead a Coordinated AI Feature Launch for an HR Software Startup
Using the company background brief and the draft feature specification provided, design a six-week launch plan covering four parallel workstreams: product readiness (acceptance …
- Product Launch
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Go To Market
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Legacy Reporting Script for a Renewable-Energy Startup
Read the existing script and identify 5-7 distinct responsibilities tangled together. Refactor into 3 layers: data loaders (CSV, REST API), transformers (pure functions over row…
- Abstraction
- Higher Order Functions
- Refactoring
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Safe Expression Evaluator for a Math-Learning App
Working only from the materials provided, build a self-contained expression evaluator in Python (TypeScript is acceptable if you mirror the same structure) that never calls eval…
- Recursion
- Higher Order Functions
- Parsing
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Functional Image-Filter Pipeline for a Photography SaaS
Design a Filter as a function from (pixel matrix → pixel matrix). Build a compose helper that takes a list of filters and returns a single composed filter (function composition)…
- Higher Order Functions
- Function Composition
- Abstraction
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Characterization Tests for an Untested Pricing Engine
Drive the pricing engine with around 800 representative input vectors generated from anonymized production quotes (provided). For each vector, capture the current output as the …
- Characterization Tests
- Approval Testing
- Legacy Code
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Code-Smell Triage Workshop for a Hiring-Platform Backend
Run static analysis (SonarQube + a custom ruleset for domain-specific smells) on the four most-touched services. Score each smell on the 22-item Fowler catalog by occurrence cou…
- Code Smells
- Static Analysis
- Refactoring Prioritization
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- 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 - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Stakeholder Discovery Program for a Hospital Records Replacement
Using the discovery context and stakeholder roster in the case file, design and run a structured program of 38 interviews (45 minutes each) covering the 28 clinicians, 6 technol…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- User Interviews
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Use-Case Specification for a Marketplace Disputes Workflow
Identify 5 primary use cases (e.g., 'Buyer opens dispute within 7-day window', 'Seller counters with evidence', 'Operations escalates to refund'). For each: actors, precondition…
- Use Cases
- Cockburn Template
- Requirements Specification
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Validate a Signed Construction-Permits Requirements Document
Using the requirements excerpt (req-doc-excerpt), the anonymized permits dataset (permits-dataset), and the intake notes from the first case-handler session (intake-notes), conv…
- Requirements Validation
- Executable Scenarios
- Gherkin
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
REST API Versioning Strategy for a 4-Year-Old Public API
Pick a versioning scheme (URI path vs header-based) and justify it against integrator behavior. Define the deprecation lifecycle: announce → deprecate → sunset, with concrete ti…
- REST API Design
- API Versioning
- Openapi
Engineering Software as a Service - CodeBeginnerNew
CI/CD Pipeline for a SaaS Monorepo with 14 Services
Set up Nx (or Turborepo) for affected-graph computation. Configure remote build cache (S3-backed) so cached steps skip across runs and developers. Parallelize jobs in GitHub Act…
- Ci Cd
- Monorepo
- Nx
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Observability Injection: Distributed Tracing via Sidecars
Enable Envoy tracing with the OpenTelemetry tracer in Istio MeshConfig. Configure a Tempo backend with a Grafana frontend. Verify W3C tracecontext propagation across all 26 serv…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Envoy
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Define SLOs and Error Budgets for a Real-Time Trading API
Pull 90 days of API latency + error data per endpoint from Prometheus (anonymized exports provided). Propose Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for 3 services × 2 SLI types (availa…
- Slo Definition
- Error Budgets
- Sli Design
Site Reliability Engineering - PresentationBeginnerNew
Run an Incident-Response Tabletop for a Healthtech On-Call Team
Design 3 tabletop scenarios with realistic timeline injects (every 5-10 minutes, new info arrives). Run the tabletop hybrid (in-person + remote) with the 8 on-call engineers + 2…
- Incident Response
- Tabletop Exercises
- Incident Command System
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Toil Audit + Automation Sprint for a Platform Team
Week 1-2: every team member logs every toil instance for 10 working days (timestamp, category, duration). Categorize using the Google SRE toil taxonomy (manual, repetitive, auto…
- Toil Reduction
- Automation
- Reliability Engineering
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Refresh a Decade of Tangled Architecture Documentation
Using the platform architecture dossier and the documentation inventory provided, propose and produce a consolidated architecture documentation set. First, audit the existing pa…
- Architecture Documentation
- C4 Model
- Arc42
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Add a Test Harness to an Untested Open-Source CLI
Fork the repo (test mirror provided), set up Vitest with coverage and a CI workflow that fails under 75 percent on the targeted modules. Write characterization tests first (asse…
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- Test Coverage
Software Construction - 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 - StrategyBeginnerNew
Set Up Trunk-Based Development on a 3-Branch Workflow
Audit the current branch + merge data over 8 weeks (frequency, conflict count, time-to-green). Pick one product team for a 4-week pilot: introduce a feature-flag system (Unleash…
- Version Control
- Trunk Based Development
- Feature Flags
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Apply SOLID Principles to a Notifications Subsystem
Read Notifier and the last 6 months of incidents touching it. Write a 4-page design document mapping each of the 5 SOLID principles to a specific change in the subsystem (Single…
- Solid Principles
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
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