Run a Cross-Team Retrospective After a Failed Launch
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Design a 3-hour hybrid retrospective after a failed launch, document systemic causes and commitments, then earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The civic-tech agency (publicly funded, parliamentary visibility) cannot fire its way out — they need an honest learning, not a witch-hunt.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Facilitate a cross-team retrospective on a high-visibility failed launch and produce a non-blame summary that drives at most 5 systemic commitments.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Design a retrospective that surfaces systemic causes, not personal blame
- Facilitate a 24-person hybrid retrospective without losing the room
- Translate failure-mode analysis into actionable cross-team commitments
- Write a summary stakeholders trust without legal-defensive sanitization
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.
- Retrospectives
Apply retrospectives to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Facilitation
Apply facilitation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Incident Analysis
Apply incident analysis 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.
- 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.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Product Manager
Product managers who co-facilitate cross-functional retros build the trust that lets engineering surface bad news early on the next launch.
This challenge sharpens
- facilitation
- stakeholder-communication
- process-design