Validate a Signed Construction-Permits Requirements Document
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Convert twelve core permit flows into Given/When/Then scenarios, log defects with severity ratings, and reconcile flagged flows to earn your verifiable certificate.
The scenario
Cívica Digital is a 65-person municipal technology consultancy in Madrid serving regional and city governments, currently building a public construction-permits portal where citizens apply online and government case-handlers process the applications. Public-sector contracts here are fixed-scope and sign-off-driven, so a requirements document that is approved but wrong becomes expensive rework billed as change requests.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
A signed, lengthy requirements document for a government permits portal does not match how eighteen real case-handlers actually work, and the gaps must be found, proven, and corrected before the build locks them in.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate prose requirements into concrete, testable Given/When/Then scenarios that a non-technical stakeholder can confirm or reject
- Design and facilitate a hybrid in-person and remote workshop that keeps eighteen participants engaged and surfaces productive disagreement
- Distinguish a true defect from an in-scope misunderstanding from an out-of-scope change request, and document the decision defensibly
- Turn live workshop disagreement into a structured, severity-rated defect log with agreed fixes and clear ownership
- Recommend a repeatable validation process that fits a fixed-scope public-sector contract lifecycle
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 Validation
Apply requirements validation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Executable Scenarios
Apply executable scenarios to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Gherkin
Apply gherkin to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Facilitation
Apply facilitation 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.
- Defect Tracking
Apply defect tracking 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 (Public Sector)
Government products fail quietly when written requirements never meet real users. This challenge builds the core PM muscle of turning signed documents into testable scenarios and validating them with frontline staff before money is spent on the wrong build.
This challenge sharpens
- requirements-validation
- executable-scenarios
- stakeholder-communication
Business Analyst
Business analysts live at the seam between what a client signed and what users need. Here you practice converting prose into Given/When/Then checks and triaging disagreements into a defensible defect log, the daily work of requirements analysis.
This challenge sharpens
- requirements-validation
- gherkin
- defect-tracking
Delivery and Workshop Facilitator
Consultancies bill for facilitators who can run a room and produce decisions. This challenge develops the ability to design a hybrid multi-day workshop that keeps stakeholders engaged and converts conflict into agreed, tracked outcomes.
This challenge sharpens
- facilitation
- stakeholder-communication
- defect-tracking