Stakeholder Communication
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Spin-Out Strategy for a Robotics Lab's Warehouse Picking IP
Map each path: (1) OEM licensing (model royalty terms, time-to-deal, IP protection); (2) founder-led startup (cap table, hiring needs, fundraising path, 18-month milestones); (3…
- Venture Building
- Research To Product
- Strategic Options Analysis
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - StrategyIntermediateNew
Recover a Red-RAG Enterprise Implementation Mid-Flight
Pull 7 months of project artifacts (Jira, status reports, change requests, meeting minutes, time-tracking). Interview 6 people across the delivery team + 3 from the client side.…
- Project Recovery
- Estimation
- Scope Management
Software Project Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
Revitalizing a Legacy B2B SaaS Product
Your task is to create a comprehensive product revitalization plan. You must conduct at least 5 user interviews (or synthesize existing feedback), analyze product analytics (pro…
- User Research
- Product Analytics
- Roadmapping
Open coursework - 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 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
Change Management for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Assess the current organizational culture using a provided survey (simulated data) and identify potential sources of resistance using Kotter's 8-Step Model or ADKAR. Design a 3-…
- Change Management
- Organizational Culture
- Resistance Management
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Defect-Trend Analysis and Quality Action Plan for an EV Charging Platform
Pull 18 months of defect data from Jira + the field-incident system + customer-service tickets. Categorize defects by component, severity, and root-cause taxonomy. Run statistic…
- Defect Analysis
- Statistical Process Control
- Root Cause Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Risk Register for a Cross-Border Healthcare Provider
Run 8 structured interviews (CISO, IT director, clinical-systems lead, DPO, 4 clinic managers) to surface the top risk candidates. Map each risk against NIST SP 800-30 (threat s…
- Risk Management
- NIST Sp 800 30
- Security Governance
Open coursework - 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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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Map a Healthtech Startup's Triage Bot to the EU AI Regulation
Read the EU AI Regulation's Annex III (high-risk areas) carefully. Classify the triage bot's components and explain whether the system is high-risk; if so, enumerate the applica…
- Regulatory Analysis
- Ai Governance
- Risk Mapping
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Run a Go/No-Go Discovery Sprint for a Research Spin-Off
Using the founder brief, recruit 18 backend developers (6 each from fintech, business-to-business software, and developer tools) by screening the candidate pool against the qual…
- Opportunity Identification
- Customer Discovery
- Venture Building
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
5G Network Slicing Strategy for a Smart-Port Pilot
Inventory the 3 workloads with concrete numbers (e.g., 'straddle carriers: 12 ms one-way latency, 99.999 percent availability, 50 Mbps uplink'). Design 3 5G network slices (eMBB…
- 5g Network Slicing
- Cellular Networks
- Qos Design
Wireless and Mobile Networks - DesignIntermediateNew
Design and Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review
Using the platform product catalog (platform-product-catalog) and the Head of Platform's mandate (head-of-platform-brief), design a complete, repeatable quarterly review for the…
- Platform Engineering
- Platform As Product
- Facilitation
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Secure Wi-Fi Onboarding Flow for IoT Devices
Design a BLE-based onboarding protocol: device advertises a service UUID on power-on, the companion app discovers, performs an ECDH key exchange, then encrypts and sends Wi-Fi S…
- Link Layer Protocols
- Ble
- Secure Onboarding
Computer Networks - AnalysisIntermediateNew
TCP Congestion Control Comparison on a Long-Fat Network
Set up two Linux test hosts in Sydney + Frankfurt cloud regions (or one host pair with tc-netem emulating 280ms RTT). Run iperf3 transfers using CUBIC and BBR at 4 loss rates (0…
- Tcp Ip
- Congestion Control
- Performance Testing
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Versioning Strategy for a Public REST API
Receive the OpenAPI spec for the 14 endpoints, 8 months of partner-support tickets tagged 'breaking-change', and the partner-mix breakdown (which endpoints which partner uses). …
- API Design
- REST
- API Versioning
API Design and GraphQL - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Technical Debt Register for a Legacy Banking Monolith
Run 8 structured 45-minute engineer interviews (template provided) capturing one debt item per pain point with reproducible evidence. Run SonarQube against the monolith for a qu…
- Technical Debt
- Debt Quadrant
- Code Quality
Technical Debt Management - 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 - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Lab-Automation Pipeline for a Bangalore Materials Startup
Design (not build) the full closed-loop lab pipeline: data layer (LIMS plus experiment store), model layer (a surrogate plus an acquisition function such as Expected Improvement…
- Systems Architecture
- Active Learning
- Mlops Design
AI for Science and Engineering - 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
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Compliance Strategy for an AI Robo-Advisor in the EU
Anchor the work on the published EU AI Regulation risk classification (limited vs. high-risk systems) and the European Securities and Markets Authority guidelines on robo-advice…
- Ai Governance
- Regulatory Analysis
- Product Strategy
AI and Quantitative Finance - StrategyIntermediateNew
Roadmap a Defense Software Supplier from CMMI Level 2 to Level 3
Using only the materials provided to you — the de-identified Level 2 appraisal report (M1), the current-state process documentation snapshot (M2), the pilot baseline dataset for…
- Cmmi
- Process Improvement
- Process Models
Open coursework - 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 - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Three-Year Succession Plan for a Family Manufacturer
Working only from the materials you are given — a confidential company dossier describing the firm, its history, ownership, and finances; an anonymized summary of interviews wit…
- Succession Planning
- Governance Design
- Family Dynamics
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