Overview
What this challenge is about.
Conduct 5 semi-structured interviews (45 minutes each) across line cook, kitchen manager, bar manager, store manager, and group operations. Synthesize findings into 5 user personas and a journey map. Write a SRS (Software Requirements Specification) document with 12-15 functional requirements (e.g. 'system shall allow a line cook to count stock by category in under 2 minutes per category') and 6-10 non-functional requirements (offline support, response time, language EN/ES/CA). Draw a UML use-case diagram. Prototype 4 critical screens in Figma (daily count, low-stock alerts, supplier order, monthly variance). Deliver requirements, use-case diagram, Figma prototype, and a 1-page MVP scope memo for the operations director.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Discover, document, and prototype the requirements for an inventory app from non-technical restaurant staff so an external dev shop can quote MVP scope.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Run semi-structured user interviews with non-technical staff
- Write functional + non-functional requirements that are testable
- Draw a UML use-case diagram from real user research
- Trade off MVP scope against time-to-quote for a dev shop
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
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Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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Career paths this builds toward
Canonical rolesProduct Manager
Running 5 user interviews and turning them into a testable SRS plus prototype is exactly the discovery-to-spec workflow product managers ship every quarter.
This challenge sharpens
- user-interviews
- requirements-engineering
- mvp-scoping