Build a Stakeholder Engagement Plan for Barcelona's Smart Traffic Rollout
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a Stakeholder Engagement Plan for Barcelona's Smart Traffic Rollout. Beginner-friendly challenge in strategy. Developing strategies for real business p...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
How should the project team engage five stakeholder groups with conflicting interests so the smart traffic program reaches deployment without losing the buy-in of the actors who can halt it?
This is not a case study exercise. It is the work a consultant or strategist does when a client needs a recommendation backed by evidence. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates recite Porter's Five Forces and none who have built a recommendation a client would actually pay for.
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."
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
- Reconstruct stakeholder interests, influence, and expectations from a documented record rather than assumption
- Prioritize stakeholders using a defensible influence/interest framework tied to evidence
- Design differentiated engagement strategies appropriate to each group's stake and power
- Translate observed conflicts into a workable, named conflict-resolution and escalation mechanism
- Communicate trade-off decisions persuasively to a skeptical program sponsor
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 Management
Navigate competing priorities and communicate clearly with decision-makers.
- Communication Planning
Apply communication planning to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Conflict Resolution
Apply conflict resolution to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Project Planning
Apply project planning 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:
Project Coordinator (Public Sector / Infrastructure)
Coordinating infrastructure programs means aligning agencies, vendors, and the public on a fixed timeline. This challenge rehearses exactly that: reading a real situation, sequencing engagement, and keeping a multi-party program on track without losing critical support.
This challenge sharpens
- stakeholder-management
- communication-planning
- project-planning
Stakeholder Engagement Specialist
Engagement specialists turn competing interests into workable agreements. By building a prioritized matrix and a named conflict-resolution path from documented friction, you practice the core craft of mapping power and defusing opposition before it stalls delivery.
This challenge sharpens
- stakeholder-management
- conflict-resolution
- communication-planning
Smart City Program Analyst
Smart city programs live or die on public buy-in. Grounding engagement decisions in survey evidence and a charter's constraints mirrors how analysts justify rollout strategy to councils and sponsors, bridging analysis and planning into deployment readiness.
This challenge sharpens
- stakeholder-management
- project-planning
- conflict-resolution