Overview
What this challenge is about.
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 preventive (dependency updates, certificate rotation), corrective (bug-fix workflow), adaptive (yearly Django version), and perfective (performance, refactor) maintenance categories. Build a 30-item hardening checklist (rotate secrets, move to env vars, enable 2FA, add basic monitoring, etc.) prioritized P0/P1/P2. Draft a 6-week stabilization roadmap for the in-house developer (12 hours/week available). Author a 1-page board memo with annual cost estimate covering hosting, dev time, and security audit. Deliver maintenance plan, hardening checklist, roadmap, and board memo.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Produce a realistic 12-month maintenance plan for an NGO-inherited Django platform that one part-time developer can execute.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Categorize software maintenance work using the IEEE/ISO categories
- Prioritize a hardening checklist with realistic constraints
- Plan stabilization work for a part-time developer
- Communicate maintenance cost to a non-technical board
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
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