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Every scenario runs the same 18-step process. Only the fictional business, stakes and squad pressure change.

The 8 scenarios available

Beginner

Tutor Booking Web App

Take a tutoring collective from a sponsor's first request to a launch-ready booking app.

Difficulty: Beginner, step 1 of 4 Web app
Revision 2.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Hold a scope boundary when a sponsor pushes for more
  • Order a backlog by value and by dependency
  • Clear blockers the same day they appear
  • Accept or reject work honestly against a Definition of Done

Skills you practise

  • Scope control
  • Backlog ordering
  • Impediment handling
  • Definition of Done

Best for

First-time Scrum Masters learning the full lifecycle

The project

Harbourview Tutoring, a collective of 40 independent tutors, has a fixed $45,000 and until the autumn term starts to replace email-and-bank-transfer scheduling with an online booking app. You take the project from the sponsor's first request through four sprints to release, against a sponsor who wants more than the team can build and a hard deadline that leaves no room to drift.

4 sprints $45,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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E-commerce Storefront

Help a family-run homewares shop go from craft-fair stall to launch-ready online store before the holiday rush.

Difficulty: Beginner, step 1 of 4 Web app
Revision 1.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Order a backlog by value and by dependency
  • Say no to mid-sprint requests without souring the relationship
  • Split a big idea into a small first slice
  • Judge finished work against a Definition of Done

Skills you practise

  • Backlog ordering
  • Scope control
  • Thin slicing
  • Definition of Done

Best for

Learners who have finished tutor-booking, or anyone who wants a gentle second run

The project

Thistle & Thread sells handmade ceramics and homewares at craft fairs and through direct messages. With a fixed $40,000 and twelve weeks, the owner wants a store live ten days before Black Friday. You guide the team through four sprints against a sponsor who has a new idea every week.

4 sprints $40,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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Intermediate

Fitness App

Ship an app-store-ready fitness app for an investor demo, with one very tempting risky feature.

Difficulty: Intermediate, step 2 of 4 Mobile app
Revision 1.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Define a minimum product that still proves the idea
  • Weigh a risky third-party feature against a safe first slice
  • Plan around lead times you do not control
  • Protect a sprint from investor-driven requests

Skills you practise

  • Thin slicing
  • Risk management
  • Release planning
  • Scope control
  • Honest demos

Best for

Learners ready for external dependencies and a fixed demo date

The project

PaceUp, a two-founder startup, has $60,000 and fifteen weeks to get a workout-tracking app into the stores before a seed-investor demo. The founders want it to feel magical. The team has to decide what magic is worth the risk.

5 sprints $60,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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Donation Portal

Build a donation portal for a food bank where everyone has an opinion, and only a few get a vote.

Difficulty: Intermediate, step 2 of 4 Web app
Revision 1.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Tell advisers from decision-makers, and route requests properly
  • Protect the Product Owner from competing demands
  • Hold a fixed date by trading scope, not quality
  • Build trust into a product that handles people's money

Skills you practise

  • Stakeholder management
  • Scope control
  • Definition of Done
  • Release planning

Best for

Learners ready for many voices and one deadline

The project

Riverside Food Bank has $35,000, a grant that expires with the giving season, and a board, a major donor and a volunteer coordinator who all want something in the first release. Keep the team focused while you work out who decides what.

4 sprints $35,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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Advanced

Mobile Banking App

Launch a credit-union mobile app where "done" means secure, reviewed and auditable.

Difficulty: Advanced, step 3 of 4 Mobile app
Revision 1.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Build compliance and security into your Definition of Done
  • Tell mandatory changes from optional requests
  • Trade a date against a quality gate, openly
  • Plan a staged release you cannot instantly undo

Skills you practise

  • Quality gates
  • Definition of Done
  • Risk management
  • Impediment handling
  • Release planning

Best for

Experienced learners who can handle high stakes and hard trade-offs

The project

Lakeshore Community Credit Union has $120,000 and sixteen weeks to replace a clunky web portal before the regulator's examination window opens. The team can build fast, but nothing is done until it is safe. Hold the line when speed and quality collide.

5 sprints $120,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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Logistics API

Ship a partner-facing API where other people's code depends on every decision you make.

Difficulty: Advanced, step 3 of 4 API
Revision 1.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Write user stories for developers instead of end users
  • Treat documentation and contracts as part of "done"
  • Handle a breaking-change request without breaking a partner
  • Demonstrate real working calls, not mocked ones

Skills you practise

  • Contract stability
  • Definition of Done
  • Honest demos
  • Stakeholder management
  • Risk management

Best for

Learners comfortable with the ceremonies who want a technical product

The project

Corridor Freight has $70,000 and twelve weeks to launch a tracking and rate-quote API before its biggest partner goes live. The users are developers, and once they start building, changing course gets expensive. Learn what "done" means when the customer is another team's code.

4 sprints $70,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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Expert

Hospital Data Platform

Deliver hospital operations dashboards where every story passes its tests and the data still lies.

Difficulty: Expert, step 4 of 4 Data platform
Revision 1.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Separate "demoable" from "done" when data quality is the risk
  • Make invisible but essential work visible to a sponsor
  • Treat metric definitions as requirements
  • Run honest demos on real data

Skills you practise

  • Data quality
  • Honest demos
  • Definition of Done
  • Stakeholder management
  • Estimation

Best for

Experienced learners who want to see Scrum under data uncertainty

The project

Brightwater General needs bed-occupancy and wait-time dashboards before winter pressure begins. The code works on clean samples. The real data does not. Learn what "done" means when the hard part is the data and the dashboard is only the tip.

5 sprints $108,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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Legacy Migration

Replace a 15-year-old billing system with zero new features and a sponsor who cannot see progress.

Difficulty: Expert, step 4 of 4 Migration
Revision 1.0.0

Playable as

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

What you will learn

  • Show progress on work users will never see
  • Slice a migration into safe, checkable increments
  • Resist "while we're in there" scope creep
  • Plan around knowledge that lives in one person's head

Skills you practise

  • Value visibility
  • Thin slicing
  • Scope control
  • Risk management
  • Honest demos

Best for

Experienced learners who want the hardest sponsor conversation in the library

The project

Halden Water's billing system runs on servers whose lease ends in eighteen weeks. The job is to move it without changing a single invoice. The work is invisible and the stakes are exact to the cent. Show value when nothing looks different.

6 sprints $128,000 budget All five phases

What it asks of each role: Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers

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