Rebuild a Bank's Requirements Baseline for Audit Defense
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Migrate 400 spreadsheet requirements into a traceable baseline, define structure and quarterly reviews. End with a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The firm is a 110-person IT consultancy in Frankfurt specializing in regulated financial-services clients, and this engagement is a two-year core banking system migration for a regional German bank operating under banking-supervision audit requirements.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
An unstructured 400-entry requirements spreadsheet with no traceability must become a managed, audit-defensible baseline with quarterly governance the bank can run itself.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Evaluate requirements-management tooling against audit, compliance, and post-engagement ownership constraints rather than feature lists
- Design a requirement structure that supports two-way traceability from business goals down to test cases
- Migrate unstructured requirements into a managed baseline while reconstructing missing rationale and links
- Build governance that a client organization can operate independently after consultants depart
- Communicate a technical recommendation persuasively to auditors and a program-management office
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.
- Requirements Management
Apply requirements management to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Traceability
Apply traceability to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Governance
Apply governance to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Audit Compliance
Apply audit compliance to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Tool Selection
Apply tool selection 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, Regulated Software
Mirrors the core of regulated product work: defending scope decisions to auditors and tracing every requirement to a goal and a test. The challenge builds the discipline of making and justifying structure choices under compliance pressure.
This challenge sharpens
- requirements-management
- traceability
- audit-compliance
Program Governance Lead
Designing a scorecard and review cadence a client runs unaided is exactly the governance-lead remit on long migrations. The challenge develops the ability to convert program chaos into a repeatable, owned process.
This challenge sharpens
- governance
- requirements-management
- stakeholder-communication
Requirements / Business Analyst
Migrating unstructured entries into a traceable baseline and reconstructing missing rationale is the daily work of a requirements analyst on enterprise systems. The challenge sharpens structuring, linking, and tool-fit judgment.
This challenge sharpens
- requirements-management
- traceability
- tool-selection