Overview
What this challenge is about.
Design and Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review. Advanced challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockchain-verifi...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Design and facilitate the platform team's first platform-as-product quarterly review with 40 squad technical leads and produce an evidence-backed memo with binding invest and wind-down decisions.
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
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
- Translate raw developer-experience usage signal into clear, comparable per-product health snapshots
- Design a repeatable platform-as-product review process that scales to dozens of internal customers
- Facilitate a high-stakes hybrid decision session that stays productive and reaches concrete votes
- Write decisive stakeholder communication that commits to invest/wind-down choices without hedging
- Tie engineering investment decisions to observable evidence and measurable follow-through
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.
- Platform Engineering
Apply platform engineering to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Platform As Product
Apply platform as product to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Facilitation
Apply facilitation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Developer Experience
Apply developer experience 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.
- 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:
Platform Engineering Manager
This challenge mirrors the core of the role: running a shared platform as a product, measuring whether internal customers actually adopt it, and making defensible invest-or-retire calls that the whole engineering org will live with for a quarter.
This challenge sharpens
- platform-engineering
- platform-as-product
- developer-experience
Director of Developer Experience
You practice turning developer-experience signal into a structured, repeatable governance ritual and communicating decisions upward and across 40 teams — exactly the operating model a DevEx leader installs and defends.
This challenge sharpens
- developer-experience
- process-design
- stakeholder-communication
Engineering Operations Lead
Designing the cadence, the run-of-show, and the commitment-tracking for a large cross-team review builds the facilitation and process muscle an eng-ops lead uses to keep decision-making sharp at scale.
This challenge sharpens
- facilitation
- process-design
- stakeholder-communication