Overview
What this challenge is about.
Conduct 5 interviews, write a software requirements spec, and prototype 4 app screens to earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The restaurant group (around EUR 12M revenue, family-owned for 3 generations) loses 4-6 percent of food cost monthly to stockouts and over-orders and is hiring an external dev shop to build the app — they need a requirements document the shop can quote against.
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.
Software Engineering Foundations
Bachelor · Software Engineering
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Software Engineering Foundations at the Bachelor level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Requirements Engineering
Apply requirements engineering to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- User Interviews
Apply user interviews to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Use Case Modeling
Apply use case modeling to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Prototyping
Apply prototyping to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Mvp Scoping
Apply mvp scoping 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:
Product 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