Rescue a Stalling Scrum Team at a Series-B HealthTech
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Rescue a Stalling Scrum Team at a Series-B HealthTech. Intermediate challenge in analysis. Analyzing real datasets and building models that drive decisions, ...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Diagnose why a 9-person Scrum team's velocity has collapsed and propose a measurable 4-sprint recovery plan that does not require headcount changes.
This is not a data exercise. It is the work an analyst does when stakeholders need answers from messy data. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates describe statistical methods and none who have extracted insight from messy, real-world data.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Use sprint data to diagnose Scrum team dysfunctions
- Distinguish symptoms (low velocity) from root causes (oversized stories, dependencies)
- Design a phased remediation respecting team capacity and morale
- Communicate process change to a sceptical engineering audience
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Agile Methods and Practices
Master · Software Engineering
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Agile Methods and Practices at the Master 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.
- Scrum
Facilitate scrum ceremonies and drive sprint-based delivery in cross-functional teams.
- Agile Metrics
Apply agile metrics to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Retrospectives
Apply retrospectives to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Team Coaching
Apply team coaching to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Process Design
Apply process design 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
Product managers who can read flow metrics and partner on remediation are the ones engineering teams trust with roadmap commitments.
This challenge sharpens
- agile-metrics
- stakeholder-communication
- process-design