All 60 tasks, level by level

The real graded Engineering Management tasks the portal assigns, grouped into three levels.

The portal assigns these Engineering Management tasks. Finish Level 1 before Level 2 and Level 2 before Level 3. Your mentor may mark some tasks as required for the certificate.

Level 1: Foundations (24 tasks)

Task	What to do
What engineering managers do	Explain the engineering manager role: people, delivery, process and technical direction.
Team charter	Write a team charter for your intern team: mission, working hours, tools and how decisions are made.
One-on-one meetings	Prepare a 1:1 template and hold a practice 1:1 with a classmate, then note what you learned.
Giving feedback	Write feedback examples using the SBI (situation, behaviour, impact) model, both positive and constructive.
Agile ceremonies	Run a sprint planning, a daily stand-up and a retrospective for a small team project.
Task tracking	Set up a project board (GitHub Projects, Trello or Jira) and keep it up to date for two weeks.
Estimation	Lead an estimation session using story points or t-shirt sizes and record the results.
Meeting notes	Write clear meeting notes with decisions and action items for three meetings.
Communication plan	Write how your team shares updates: channels, frequency and who needs to know what.
Technical understanding	Review a pull request from a teammate and give useful, kind comments.
Time management	Track your own week and plan the next one with priorities and focus time.
Conflict scenario	Write how you would handle two teammates disagreeing about a technical choice.
Working agreement	Agree a team working agreement on reviews, response times and meetings.
Status meeting redesign	Replace a status meeting with a written update and measure time saved.
Decision log	Keep a decision log for two weeks with context and owners.
Feedback practice	Give and receive feedback with three teammates using SBI and reflect on it.
Recognition	Recognise good work publicly every week and note the effect on the team.
Team health check	Run a team health check survey and discuss the results.
Calendar audit	Audit your calendar and protect focus time for the team.
Onboarding buddy	Act as an onboarding buddy for a new intern for one week.
Writing a good ticket	Write five well-defined tickets with context and acceptance criteria.
Demo day	Organise a demo day where each team member shows their work.
Learning plan	Make a team learning plan with one skill per person.
Escalation path	Write who to contact for what, and when to escalate.

Level 2: Building real features (20 tasks)

Task	What to do
Delivery planning	Plan a 4-week project with milestones, dependencies and risks.
Risk register	Maintain a risk register with likelihood, impact and mitigation for your project.
Engineering metrics	Track DORA-style metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate) for your team repo.
Hiring exercise	Write a job description and an interview plan with questions and a scoring rubric for an intern role.
Onboarding guide	Write an onboarding guide that gets a new intern productive in their first week.
Incident review	Run a blameless review of a real or simulated outage and write the action items.
Stakeholder management	Write a status report for a manager and adjust the plan after their feedback.
Technical debt plan	List the technical debt in a project and propose a plan to pay it down.
Process improvement	Find one slow step in your team's workflow and improve it, measuring before and after.
Career conversations	Write a growth plan with a teammate: strengths, goals and next steps.
Quarterly planning	Run a quarterly planning session with goals and capacity.
Dependency map	Map dependencies between teams and reduce one.
On-call design	Design a fair on-call rotation with handover notes.
Quality metrics	Track bug escape rate and time to fix, and set improvement goals.
Hiring loop	Run a mock hiring loop with interviewers, rubric and debrief.
Underperformance plan	Write a fair, supportive improvement plan for a struggling team member (fictional case).
Remote team practices	Improve practices for a remote or hybrid team and measure the effect.
Budget request	Write a request for a new tool with cost and expected benefit.
Engineering roadmap	Create an engineering roadmap balancing features, debt and reliability.
Stakeholder map	Map your stakeholders and plan how you communicate with each.

Level 3: Professional work and capstone (16 tasks)

Task	What to do
Lead a team project	Lead a 3-5 person intern project from kick-off to delivery and keep weekly reports.
Performance review	Write a fair, evidence-based performance review for each team member's internship work.
Budget and resourcing	Estimate the people and tool cost of your project and justify it.
Engineering strategy	Write a one-page engineering strategy for a small company for the next year.
Cross-team coordination	Coordinate a dependency with another team and document how you resolved it.
Retrospective of your leadership	Collect anonymous feedback on your leadership and write what you will change.
Real company work lead	Coordinate interns on a real Training Trains, W3AppDevelopers or DomainHostly task from the Company Work board.
Capstone: management portfolio	Submit a portfolio of your charter, plans, metrics, reviews, incident report and a final project report.
Reorg scenario	Plan how to split a team of 12 into two teams with clear ownership.
Culture document	Write a team culture document describing values and behaviours.
Promotion case	Write a promotion case for a team member using evidence and the career ladder.
Crisis leadership	Lead the response to a simulated major incident and write the review.
Vendor management	Evaluate two vendors for a service and recommend one.
Diversity and inclusion plan	Write an inclusion plan for hiring and team practices.
Mentoring program	Set up a mentoring program for interns with pairs and goals.
Capstone 2: leadership case study	Write a case study of a project you led: team, decisions, metrics, problems and what you would do differently, reviewed by a mentor.

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