Process Mapping
If you like applying Process Mapping, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Kanban Flow System for a Platform Team
Map the platform team's current workflow (intake to deploy) and design a Kanban board with 5-7 columns, explicit WIP limits per column, and a class-of-service swimlane for emerg…
- Kanban Boards
- Flow Metrics
- Process Mapping
Agile Methods and Practices - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Measure and Reduce Developer Cognitive Load Across 6 Squads
Run the Team Topologies team self-assessment (cognitive-load survey, 12 questions) with 5 representatives per squad (30 total). Inventory each squad's tool surface: services own…
- Platform Engineering
- Cognitive Load
- Team Topologies
Platform Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Software Analytics Dashboard for an Engineering Org
Author a metric catalog defining each of ~15 metrics with formula, data source, refresh cadence, and known caveats (e.g. lead-time-for-changes excludes WIP-flagged PRs to avoid …
- Software Analytics
- Dora Metrics
- Space Framework
Advanced Software Engineering - StrategyBeginnerNew
Set Up Trunk-Based Development on a 3-Branch Workflow
Audit the current branch + merge data over 8 weeks (frequency, conflict count, time-to-green). Pick one product team for a 4-week pilot: introduce a feature-flag system (Unleash…
- Version Control
- Trunk Based Development
- Feature Flags
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Why Ewance
- PresentationIntermediateNew
Run a Cross-Team Retrospective After a Failed Launch
Design a 3-hour structured retrospective using either Liberating Structures or Norm Kerr's 'Prime Directive' framing (assume people did the best job possible with what they knew…
- Retrospectives
- Facilitation
- Incident Analysis
Agile Methods and Practices - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Rescue a Stalling Scrum Team at a Series-B HealthTech
Review 8 hours of recorded ceremonies and 3 sprints of Jira data (story sizing, carry-over rate, cycle time per story, blocker tags). Diagnose the top 3 root causes (likely cand…
- Agile / Scrum Ceremonies
- Agile Metrics
- Retrospectives
Agile Methods and Practices - DesignBeginnerNew
ITIL Service Desk Redesign for a D2C Cosmetics Startup
Design a service desk model based on ITIL best practices. Propose a tiered support structure (L1-L3), a self-service portal with knowledge base, and a process for incident manag…
- Itil
- Service Desk
- Incident Management
IT Service Management - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Technical-Debt Quantification for an Acquired SaaS
Run a static-analysis sweep (SonarQube + custom dependency scripts) and a 4-hour structured walkthrough with the acquired team's 3 senior engineers. Categorize debt into: code-q…
- Technical Debt
- Code Analysis
- Estimation
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
PMO Pilot for a Mid-Cap Engineering Org
Audit 4 pilot teams over 1 week: backlog, work-in-flight, cross-team dependencies, ad-hoc requests, slip history. Design a lightweight PMO covering: portfolio view (Notion + Lin…
- Pmo Governance
- Portfolio Management
- Intake Design
Software Project Management - DesignFoundationalNew
Kanban Rollout for a Lisbon Bakery Chain
Design a Kanban system for the catering order workflow from order intake to delivery confirmation. You must define columns, WIP limits, classes of service (e.g., same-day vs. sc…
- Kanban Boards
- Process Mapping
- Wip Limits
Agile Project Management - DesignBeginnerNew
Architecture Decision Records for a Modernization Program
Read 18 weeks of architecture-channel Slack history and 6 architecture-review meeting notes to inventory decisions already made. Backfill 12 ADRs using Michael Nygard's template…
- Architecture Decision Records (Adrs)
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
Technical Debt Management - CodeIntermediateNew
De-Identify Patient Images for a Pharma Research Pipeline
You receive 500 internal benchmark images (already cleared for use), each labelled with bounding boxes around face/tattoo/jewelry regions. Build a pipeline that detects these re…
- Image De Identification
- Object Detection
- Privacy Preserving Vision
Image Processing and Computational Imaging Build a verifiable portfolio.
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Service Transition Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Design a service transition framework for the scale-up. Include a change advisory board (CAB) structure, a release policy (frequency, types), and a deployment plan for a major f…
- Itil
- Change Management
- Release Management
IT Service Management - DesignBeginnerNew
ERP Migration for a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to create a detailed migration blueprint for Glow Naturals. You will map current business processes (order-to-cash, procure-to-pay) to Dynamics 365, define data mig…
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Process Mapping
- Data Migration
ERP Systems (SAP and Microsoft Dynamics) - DesignSeniorNew
Social Security Compliance for a Remote-First Tech Company
As a compliance analyst, you must audit GlobalDev's current practices and propose a system for social security registration and contribution tracking across multiple EU jurisdic…
- Social Security Law
- EU Regulation
- Cross Border Compliance
Labor and Employment Law - DesignBeginnerNew
Improving Order Fulfillment at a D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to map the current order fulfillment process, identify root causes of errors and delays, and propose a redesigned process using lean and quality tools. Success mean…
- Process Mapping
- Lean
- Quality Management
Operations Management - PresentationIntermediateNew
Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review for a 40-Squad Org
Define the platform's 8 products (CI service, golden-path templates, observability stack, secret management, namespace provisioning, on-call tooling, internal portal, paved-road…
- Platform Engineering
- Platform As Product
- Facilitation
Platform Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Organizational Restructuring for a SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to design a new organizational structure for DataFlow Analytics. You must interview stakeholders (simulated via personas), analyze current bottlenecks, propose a st…
- Organizational Design
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Mapping
Principles of Management - StrategySeniorNew
Procurement Digitalization Roadmap for a Mid-Size Manufacturer
As a digital procurement consultant, you must assess the current procurement process, identify pain points, and propose a digitalization roadmap. This includes selecting softwar…
- Procurement Digitalization
- Process Mapping
- Change Management
Procurement and Strategic Sourcing - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design Critique Process for a Growth Design Team
Design a 60-minute weekly design-critique format covering: pre-read window, presenter prep template, time-boxed feedback rounds (start-stop-continue or 'I like, I wish, I wonder…
- Design Critique
- Facilitation
- Design Systems
User Interface Design and Prototyping - StrategyIntermediateNew
Roll Out an Advanced Process Model (LeSS) to 6 Product Teams
Read the LeSS framework (Larman + Vodde) and audit the 6 teams' current Scrum practice (anonymized data + 4 hours of recorded ceremonies). Author a 10-page rollout design coveri…
- Advanced Process Models
- Scaling Agile
- Less
Advanced Software Engineering - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Post-Editing Workflow for a Cross-Border Fintech
You will design a 4-stage MTPE workflow: (1) source-content readiness check, (2) MT generation with the existing vendor, (3) post-editing with tier-based effort (light vs. full)…
- Mt Evaluation
- Workflow Design
- Neural Mt
Machine Translation - DesignFoundationalNew
Improving Patient Intake for a Telehealth Startup
You are a design thinking consultant hired by MediConnect. Your task is to analyze the current intake flow, identify pain points through user research, ideate improvements, prot…
- User Research
- Ux Design
- Wireframing
Design Thinking and Innovation - DesignFoundationalNew
Scaling Internal Innovation at a 40-Person SaaS Scale-up
Design a 'Corporate Entrepreneurship Program' for TaskFlow that includes idea submission, selection, and incubation processes. The program must be low-cost (under €50k annually)…
- Cohort Program Design
- Intrapreneurship
- Process Mapping
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
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