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Project & Program Management Challenges
Project & Program Management challenges put you inside the work of scoping, planning and shipping work across teams. You'll build skills in project scoping, roadmap planning and Gantt chart reading, run Agile / Scrum ceremonies and Kanban boards, and track progress with Jira & Confluence and agile metrics.
From there you'll tackle the harder edges — cross-team dependency management, RAID log management, roadmap prioritization (RICE, MoSCoW) and PMO governance — scaling into portfolio management, SAFe and transformation program orchestration while leading distributed teams. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Wireless Security Audit and Hardening for a Telco's Public Wi-Fi
Receive a sampled audit set: AP configurations for 80 sites (vendor mix, current encryption, EAP — Extensible Authentication Protocol — method, captive-portal config). Run analy…
- Wireless Security
- Wpa3
- Eap
Network Security - StrategyBeginnerNew
Agile Transformation at a Barcelona D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to assess the current project management practices at Brillo Natural, identify key pain points, and propose a phased agile adoption plan. The plan should include re…
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Change Management
Project Management - 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…
- Agile / Scrum Ceremonies
- Agile Metrics
- Retrospectives
Agile Methods and Practices - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a 3-Year IT Strategy for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Inventory the current IT estate from anonymized exports (CMDB extract, license registry, 4 plant CIO interviews, last 18 months of incident data). Identify 5 strategic themes (l…
- It Strategy
- It Governance
- Business It Alignment
IT Management and Governance Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real industry context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- StrategySeniorNew
TLS and PKI Migration to Post-Quantum for a Cross-Border Bank
Receive an anonymized TLS inventory (endpoint, current cipher suite, TLS version, certificate issuer, last rotation, business criticality) and the bank's PKI hierarchy. Score en…
- Tls
- Pki
- Post Quantum Cryptography
Network Security - StrategyBeginnerNew
Scrum Transition Plan for a Warsaw Fintech
Produce a 90-day Scrum transition plan covering three squads (Payments Core, Merchant Onboarding, Risk & Compliance). Define how Product Owner and Scrum Master roles will be sta…
- Agile / Scrum Ceremonies
- Change Management
- Backlog Design
Agile Project Management - DesignFoundationalNew
Kanban Rollout for a Lisbon Bakery Chain
Design a Kanban system for the catering order workflow from order intake to delivery confirmation. You must define columns, WIP limits, classes of service (e.g., same-day vs. sc…
- Kanban Boards
- Process Mapping
- Wip Limits
Agile Project 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 - Browse challenges
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Product Manager
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.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Continuous Delivery Maturity Audit for a Fintech Backend
Collect 8 weeks of deployment data (lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change-failure rate, mean time to restore) per team using their GitHub Actions + Jira + PagerDut…
- Continuous Delivery
- Dora Metrics
- Ci Cd
Agile Methods and Practices - 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 - StrategyFoundationalNew
Stakeholder Management for a Smart City Infrastructure Project
Your task is to identify all key stakeholders, analyze their interests, influence, and expectations, and propose a communication and engagement strategy. The plan should include…
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication Planning
- Conflict Resolution
Project Management - DesignBeginnerNew
ERP Migration for a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to create a detailed migration blueprint for Glow Naturals. You will map current business processes (order-to-cash, procure-to-pay) to Dynamics 365, define data mig…
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Process Mapping
- Data Migration
ERP Systems (SAP and Microsoft Dynamics) 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
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
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
- Ai Pair Programming
Agile Methods and Practices - 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 - StrategyIntermediateNew
Write a Product Strategy for an AI-Native Customer-Support Startup
Conduct desk research on the customer-support automation market (TAM, growth rate, competitor landscape — Zendesk, Intercom, the new AI-native cohort like Decagon and Sierra). I…
- Product Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Positioning
Product Management for Software Engineers - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Rescuing a Stalled Sprint at a Boston EdTech
Analyze the provided six-sprint dataset and interview transcripts to diagnose why sprint goals are failing. Build a quantitative view (velocity trends, scope-change rate, carryo…
- Agile / Scrum Ceremonies
- Retrospective Facilitation
- Data Analysis
Agile Project Management - 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 Boards
- Flow Metrics
- Process Mapping
Agile Methods and Practices - 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 - DesignBeginnerNew
Lean Transformation for a Boston D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a comprehensive lean transformation plan for GlowUp Naturals' new in-house production facility. You must propose a cellular layout, implement kanban for …
- Lean Manufacturing
- Production Layout Design
- Kanban Boards
Production and Manufacturing Management
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From brief to credential, in six steps.
Step 01
Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
Step 02
Accept the one that fits your goals.
Step 03
Work through it with AI Copilot guidance.
Step 04
Submit for structured evaluation.
Step 05
Earn a verified credential.
Step 06
Add it to LinkedIn with one click.
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