Step into a high-pressure product launch as a Project Manager leading a cross-functional team to deliver a Usage Limits feature for a critical sales demo. In this realistic simulation, you'll manage scope creep, unblock dependencies, broker tradeoffs between engineering and design, handle executive pressure, and keep the team aligned—all while protecting quality and meeting a hard deadline. Experience the strategic thinking, communication skills, and resilience required to ship features that matter.
What you'll learn
Understand how to balance scope, quality, and timeline under pressure
Learn to manage dependencies and unblock teams effectively
Practice stakeholder communication with executives and sales
Experience mediating cross-functional conflicts between engineering and design
Gain insight into feature flagging, risk mitigation, and go/no-go decisions
Skills you'll practice
What you'll do
Manage scope creep from sales and stakeholders
Unblock engineering dependencies with feature flags and workarounds
Mediate design vs engineering tradeoffs
Provide crisp status updates to executive sponsors
Make go/no-go decisions for a high-stakes demo
Run a retro and capture actionable follow-ups
Who this is for
Aspiring project and product managers
Coordinators looking to step into PM roles
Engineers or designers curious about product management
Business analysts exploring PM career paths
Anyone interested in cross-functional leadership