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Smart Inventory System for Dubai Cosmetics
Your task is to design a smart inventory system for GlowDubai's warehouse. The system should use weight sensors on shelves and RFID tags on products to track inventory. Data mus…
- Iot Architecture
- Sensor Selection
- Communication Protocols
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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 - StrategyBeginnerNew
Launch Plan for a Munich Vegan Skincare Brand in Germany
Working from the provided client brief and the synthetic German natural-skincare market dataset, build a complete twelve-month go-to-market plan for the Zero-Waste Serum line. Y…
- Go To Market Strategy
- Customer Segmentation
- Brand Positioning
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Open-Source Embedding Models for a Multilingual Help Center
You receive 1,200 labeled (query, relevant-help-article) pairs across 6 languages plus the help-center corpus (~25,000 articles). Index the corpus with each of 4 open-source mul…
- Multilingual Embeddings
- Dense Retrieval
- Ir Evaluation
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Optimizing Inventory for a São Paulo D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are given a CSV file with raw sales, inventory, and supplier data. Your task is to design an E/R diagram, create the normalized relational schema in 3NF, populate it with sa…
- SQL
- Database Design
- Normalization
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Design a Wi-Fi 6E Coverage Plan for a Robot Warehouse
Using the warehouse layout and obstruction inventory, the robot fleet's radio requirements brief, and the existing Wi-Fi survey readout (all provided), design a Wi-Fi 6E access-…
- Wireless Networks
- Wifi 6e
- Site Survey
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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
Software Engineering Foundations - DesignBeginnerNew
Design Structured JSON Logging for a Healthcare Rails Monolith
Working only from the three materials provided, design and propose a structured-logging migration for the Rails monolith. Study the current logger configuration (provided code m…
- Structured Logging
- Loki
- Phi Redaction
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Design Secrets Management for a Regulated GitOps Pipeline
Design the secrets topology: Vault as the single source, External Secrets Operator (ESO) syncing into Kubernetes Secrets with auto-rotation. SecretStore + ClusterSecretStore bou…
- External Secrets Operator
- Hashicorp Vault
- Secrets Management
GitOps and Continuous Delivery - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Misclassification of Gig Workers at a Barcelona Delivery Startup
As a junior legal consultant, you must assess Rapido's current classification of couriers under Spanish labor law and the EU Platform Work Directive. Deliver a memo analyzing th…
- Labor Law Analysis
- Legal Research
- Risk Assessment
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Redesign TaskFlow's Pricing to Win Enterprise Customers
Using the company brief, the current-accounts dataset, and the enterprise-requirements brief provided, design a new pricing-and-packaging strategy for TaskFlow that adds enterpr…
- Pricing Strategy
- Packaging Design
- Product Led Growth
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Revenue Recognition Audit for a Stockholm Subscription-Software Scale-up
Working only from the three anonymized contract case-files, the current recognition schedule extract, and the official IFRS 15 standard page provided to you, restate revenue for…
- IFRS 15
- Revenue Recognition
- Contract Analysis
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Apply SOLID to a Java Reporting Service for a Renewable Energy Startup
Receive the legacy ReportService, 4 sample report templates (Daily Output, Monthly P&L, Annual Availability, Curtailment), and 22 fixtures (input dataset, expected report). Refa…
- Java
- Solid Principles
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - 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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Wake-Word Detector for a Smart-Speaker Startup
You receive a small public Japanese-speech dataset, 30 hours of recorded wake-phrase utterances from 50 volunteers, and 200 hours of background-noise recordings. Train a lightwe…
- Keyword Spotting
- Speech Recognition
- On Device Ml
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Design a Talent Retention Strategy for Lueur Cosmetics
Using the Lueur Company Context Brief, the Exit Interview Records dataset, the Engagement Survey Results dataset, and the Current Rewards & Budget Sheet, design a talent retenti…
- Talent Retention
- Hr Analytics
- Strategic Hrm
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose Query Failures in an E-Commerce Search Box
You receive 6 months of anonymized query logs (~480 million rows): query string, language hint, results-shown count, top-3 product clicks, and add-to-cart events. Build a notebo…
- Query Log Analysis
- Clustering
- Ir Failure Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field Study: Fixing Order Fulfillment at a Cosmetics Startup
Using the order-fulfillment log dataset and the company case file provided to you, map how an order moves from placement to dispatch today and pinpoint where errors and delays a…
- Process Mapping
- Lean
- Quality Management
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Author a Ubiquitous-Language Glossary for a Telco Billing Domain
Conduct 12 structured interviews (30 min each) with stakeholders across CRM, billing, AR, customer portal, and finance. Capture each team's terminology for the top 25 domain con…
- Ubiquitous Language
- Context Mapping
- Stakeholder Interviews
Domain-Driven Design - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Video-Question-Answering Demo on a Budget
Pick the model (Video-LLaVA, VideoChat2, or LLaVA-Video) and justify on the A10G budget. Build a Streamlit demo: upload video, ask question, get answer with cited frame timestam…
- Video Language Models
- Multimodal Fusion
- Streamlit
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Project Management Plan for a SaaS Product Launch
Develop a 6-week launch plan using appropriate project management methodology (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid — justify your choice). Include: (1) Work Breakdown Structure with all…
- Project Management
- Collaborative Work
- Digital Business Models
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Resolving Cross-Cultural Conflict in a Global SaaS Remote Team
Your task is to conduct a cultural conflict analysis using frameworks like Trompenaars and Hofstede, identify root causes, and design a team intervention (e.g., a virtual worksh…
- Conflict Resolution
- Cultural Analysis
- Remote Team Management
Cross-Cultural 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
- Pair Programming
Agile Methods and Practices - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Customer Lifetime Value Model for SaaS Scale-up
You are provided with a dataset of 5,000 customers with features: acquisition channel, monthly spend, tenure, number of support tickets, product usage metrics, and churn flag. Y…
- Customer Lifetime Value
- Predictive Modeling
- Customer Segmentation
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