Run a Stakeholder Discovery Program for a Hospital Records Replacement
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Run a Stakeholder Discovery Program for a Hospital Records Replacement. Intermediate challenge in research. Conducting rigorous research on real questions, e...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Run a defensible, evidence-traceable stakeholder-discovery program that produces a prioritized capability list and a red-line constraints document the EHR vendor proposal can be safely built on.
This is not a research exercise. It is the work a researcher does to produce findings that withstand scrutiny. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates summarize papers and none who have produced original findings under expert review.
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
- Design and run a consistent interview protocol that produces traceable, comparable evidence across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Map stakeholders by influence and interest to plan engagement and surface decision-makers.
- Synthesize raw interview evidence into themes using affinity clustering without losing traceability to source quotes.
- Prioritize capabilities with MoSCoW scoring and defend each decision with evidence.
- Translate discovery findings into constraints clear enough to anchor a vendor selection process.
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.
- Stakeholder Analysis
Apply stakeholder analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Requirements Elicitation
Apply requirements elicitation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- User Interviews
Apply user interviews to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Moscow Prioritization
Apply moscow prioritization to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Affinity Clustering
Apply affinity clustering 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.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Product Manager (Discovery & Requirements)
Running a traceable interview program and turning raw evidence into a prioritized, defensible capability list is the core of product discovery work, where PMs must justify every requirement to engineering and stakeholders before a build begins.
This challenge sharpens
- requirements-elicitation
- user-interviews
- moscow-prioritization
Technical Program Manager
Coordinating discovery across clinical, technology, and administrative groups and producing constraints a vendor must honor mirrors the cross-functional alignment and scoping a TPM owns on large system replacements.
This challenge sharpens
- stakeholder-analysis
- stakeholder-communication
- requirements-elicitation
UX Researcher
Designing a consistent protocol, synthesizing interviews with affinity clustering, and keeping themes traceable to evidence is exactly how UX researchers convert user conversations into trusted, actionable insight for product teams.
This challenge sharpens
- user-interviews
- affinity-clustering
- stakeholder-analysis