Stakeholder Communication
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Production HTTP/2 Load Balancer Configuration
Design a multi-region topology: anycast edge -> regional Envoy clusters -> origin services. Specify HTTP/2 connection pooling (max connections per upstream, idle timeout), retry…
- Application Protocols
- Load Balancing
- Envoy
Computer Networks - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Custom Cryptographic Protocol
Read the 22-page protocol spec, the Go reference implementation (around 4,000 lines), and the test vectors. Run a structured review covering: primitive choices (which cipher, MA…
- Applied Cryptography
- Cryptographic Audit
- Protocol Analysis
Applied Cryptography - 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
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Instruction Set Analysis for an Embedded Workload
Compile all 12 workload programs to both ISAs using the appropriate cross-compiler (GCC with -march=rv32e for RISC-V; provided proprietary toolchain for the in-house ISA). Repor…
- Instruction Sets
- Code Density
- Embedded Systems
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a 3-Year IT Strategy for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Inventory the current IT estate from anonymized exports (CMDB extract, license registry, 4 plant CIO interviews, last 18 months of incident data). Identify 5 strategic themes (l…
- It Strategy
- It Governance
- Business It Alignment
IT Management and Governance - StrategyBeginnerNew
Negotiate a Technical-Debt Paydown Budget Into the Roadmap
Using the engineering debt case file, build a debt-paydown budgeting framework that fits the sprint cadence and committed work shown in the roadmap snapshot. For each of the thr…
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
- Refactoring Budgets
Open coursework - 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 - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Continuous Eval Pipeline for an Enterprise RAG Product
Design (and partially build) a continuous-eval pipeline for a RAG system: (1) a structured eval set with at least 50 queries grouped by query class; (2) automated scoring (LLM-a…
- Continuous Evaluation
- LLM Evaluation
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cache Configuration Study for a Memory-Bound Workload
Profile the existing inner loop on a workstation with perf to baseline L1/L2/L3 miss rates and miss latencies. Run the same loop through gem5's classic cache model under 6 confi…
- Caches
- Memory Subsystems
- Performance Modeling
Computer Architecture - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Product Discovery Sprint for Logistics Dispatch Software
Using the company-brief and the customer-recruitment-packet, recruit and interview eight dispatchers across the five named freight-forwarder customers (the warm introduction ema…
- Product Discovery
- User Interviews
- Opportunity Solution Tree
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Carbon Footprint Strategy for a San Francisco D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a sustainability consultant hired by Glow Naturally. Your task is to develop a comprehensive carbon footprint assessment and reduction roadmap. Success means delivering …
- GHG Protocol
- Carbon Footprint
- Supply Chain Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Clear a Fortune-100 Privacy Review for an HR-Tech Vendor
Using the product fact-sheet, the stakeholder interview notes, the buyer's 14-concern brief, and the official texts of the General Data Protection Regulation and the EU Artifici…
- Compliance
- Privacy Regulation
- GDPR
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- 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…
- Scrum
- Agile Metrics
- Retrospectives
Agile Methods and Practices - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Postmortem and Action-Item Tracking for a 3-Service Outage
Re-write the existing postmortem using the Google SRE blameless format: timeline (anchored to UTC), what went well, what went poorly, where we got lucky, action items (S.M.A.R.T…
- Postmortems
- Blameless Culture
- Action Item Tracking
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Use-Case Specification for a Marketplace Disputes Workflow
Identify 5 primary use cases (e.g., 'Buyer opens dispute within 7-day window', 'Seller counters with evidence', 'Operations escalates to refund'). For each: actors, precondition…
- Use Cases
- Cockburn Template
- Requirements Specification
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
IT Consulting Engagement: Cost-Out Diagnostic for a Logistics Group
Receive an anonymized spend cube (vendor, category, country, contract end date), an infra utilization extract (compute, storage, network), and the application portfolio. Conduct…
- It Consulting
- Cost Analysis
- Vendor Management
IT Management and Governance - ResearchIntermediateNew
Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund
Working from the provided seed company list, founder-interview guide, readiness-scoring rubric, and thesis-memo template, run a structured scouting sprint for both sectors. For …
- Emerging Tech Scouting
- Innovation Management
- Venture Thesis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Six-Month Post-Acquisition Cultural Integration Plan
Using the anonymized organizational profiles in the provided case file, the pre-integration culture and engagement survey results, and the chief executive's mandate memo, build …
- Cultural Analysis
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Communication
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Human-Preference Study Comparing Two Coding Assistants
Design a blinded paired-comparison study: 12 developer participants, each gets the same 8 realistic coding tasks (refactor, write a function, debug, test), each task is solved b…
- Experiment Design
- Statistical Evaluation
- Human Evaluation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
IT Management and Governance - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Define SLOs and Error Budgets for a Real-Time Trading API
Pull 90 days of API latency + error data per endpoint from Prometheus (anonymized exports provided). Propose Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for 3 services × 2 SLI types (availa…
- Slo Definition
- Error Budgets
- Sli Design
Site Reliability Engineering - StrategyIntermediateNew
Ship a Lean Flood-Insurance MVP and Convert Two Nordic Pilots
Working only from the materials provided, frame the build using Build-Measure-Learn from the Lean Startup reference, and name the single riskiest assumption you will test first …
- Lean Startup
- Venture Building
- Mvp Design
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build the Risk, Budget, and Milestone Plan for a Mobile Bank Launch
Work only from the three materials provided: the launch brief, the regulatory obligations register, and the vendor and staffing cost sheet. From the launch brief and the regulat…
- Risk Management
- Regulatory Planning
- Scheduling
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Bundled Pricing Business Case for an Industrial IoT Vendor
Using the company facts in the company case file, the historical deal records in the deal-history dataset, and the required sections listed in the board business case template, …
- Business Case
- Financial Modeling
- Pricing Strategy
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