Process Mapping
If you like applying Process Mapping, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- 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 - 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 - 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
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 Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Designing a Service Cloud Strategy for a Renewable Energy Company
You are a Salesforce consultant leading a team of 3 students. Your task is to deliver a Service Cloud blueprint for SunGrid Energy. The solution must include case routing rules,…
- Service Cloud
- Case Management
- Knowledge Base Attachment
Salesforce and CRM Platforms - 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 - 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 - DesignIntermediateNew
FMEA for SaaS Platform Migration at a 40-Person Scale-Up
You are provided with a system architecture overview and a list of potential failure modes from the engineering team. Your task is to complete an FMEA worksheet: identify failur…
- Fmea
- Risk Assessment
- Mitigation Strategy
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Continuous Delivery Maturity Audit for a Fintech Backend
Collect 8 weeks of deployment data (lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change-failure rate, mean time to restore) per team using their GitHub Actions + Jira + PagerDut…
- Continuous Delivery
- Dora Metrics
- Ci Cd
Agile Methods and Practices - 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
Software Evolution and Maintenance - 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 - 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 Build a verifiable portfolio.
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- 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 - ResearchIntermediateNew
Industrial Case Study: Why a Microservices Migration Failed
Conduct 8 1-hour interviews across CTO, 3 tech leads, 2 platform engineers, 1 SRE, and the product VP. Analyze 24 months of artifacts (ADRs, RFCs, incident reports, deployment d…
- Industrial Case Study
- Qualitative Research
- Software Architecture
Advanced Software Engineering
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