Design a Kanban Catering Workflow for a Lisbon Bakery Chain
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Design a Kanban Catering Workflow for a Lisbon Bakery Chain. Beginner-friendly challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a bl...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
How can a non-technical bakery operations team visualize and control the flow of catering orders from intake to delivery so that late deliveries and client complaints fall?
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Map an existing real-world workflow into discrete Kanban stages with clear entry and exit (done) criteria
- Set and justify work-in-progress limits that match a small operation's actual capacity
- Differentiate classes of service and encode pull policies that route urgent versus scheduled work
- Communicate an operational system in plain language so non-technical staff can adopt it quickly
- Defend operational design choices with sound, evidence-based agile reasoning
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Kanban
Apply kanban to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Process Mapping
Apply process mapping to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Wip Limits
Apply wip limits to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Workflow Design
Apply workflow design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Stakeholder Communication
Apply stakeholder communication to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Operations Analyst
This challenge mirrors the analyst's core job: turning a messy real-world process into a visualized, rule-based system. You practice mapping a workflow, setting capacity limits, and proving the design works against actual order data — the daily work of improving operational flow.
This challenge sharpens
- process-mapping
- wip-limits
- workflow-design
Process Improvement Coordinator
Coordinators introduce lightweight systems that non-technical teams actually adopt. By designing a Kanban board and writing a guide staff can follow unaided, you build the exact skills needed to roll out continuous-improvement practices in small operations.
This challenge sharpens
- kanban
- workflow-design
- stakeholder-communication
Agile Delivery Associate
Agile delivery roles depend on making work visible and limiting it to what a team can handle. Defining WIP limits, pull policies, and classes of service here translates directly to coordinating flow on software and service delivery teams.
This challenge sharpens
- kanban
- wip-limits
- stakeholder-communication