The setting

Brightpath Solar designs and installs residential and small commercial rooftop solar across one region. You are the project manager who coordinates design, permitting, crews, and utility interconnection for a growing backlog of jobs.

Every mission on this path happens at the same company, so context carries over the way it does in a real job: the data you cleaned in mission two is the data the finance lead questions in mission four.

The missions

1. project charterstarter

Charter the Brightpath community-center solar pilot

Brightpath just won a contract to put a 48-panel array on the Eastside Community Center, the company's first public building. The city sponsor wants panels live before the fall program season, and kickoff is next week. There is no charter yet, so scope and constraints live only in a messy set of notes.

You deliver: A one-page project charter with objectives, scope, stakeholders, milestones, success metrics, and key constraints.

Scored on: Scope clarity, Stakeholder coverage, Milestone realism, Success metrics.

Working from: kickoff_notes.md, stakeholders.md.

2. work breakdownstarter

Build the work breakdown for the Delgado rooftop install

The Delgado family signed for an 18-panel rooftop system and wants it done before the July 1 rate change. Before you can schedule crews you need a work breakdown that everyone can read the same way, because the last job stalled when a step had no owner.

You deliver: A work breakdown structure grouping the install into phases with owners, durations, and dependencies.

Scored on: Phase structure, Correct dependencies, Owner assignment, Duration estimates.

Working from: scope_delgado.md, crew_roles.md.

3. risk logcore

Stand up the risk log for the Harborview 40-home rollout

Brightpath signed a neighborhood deal: 40 rooftop systems in the Harborview subdivision over eight weeks, its largest job yet. VP Nadia Cole wants a scored risk log before week one, because the last few jobs each slipped for reasons that were foreseeable in hindsight.

You deliver: A scored risk register with probability, impact, mitigation, owner, and trigger for each risk.

Scored on: Risk identification, Scoring quality, Evidence from history, Specific mitigations and owners.

Working from: rollout_brief.md, incident_history.csv.

4. status reportcore

Write the week 6 status report for the Harborview rollout

The Harborview rollout is at week six of eight and the sponsor wants a straight answer: will Brightpath hit 40 homes by week eight? Installs are moving, but something downstream is slowing the finish. VP Nadia Cole told you not to write a hopeful report, write an honest one.

You deliver: A RAG status report covering progress against plan, risks and issues, and next steps.

Scored on: Accurate progress, Justified RAG status, Risks surfaced, Clear next steps.

Working from: sprint_status.csv, crew_notes.md.

5. retrospectivestretch

Run the Harborview rollout retrospective

The Harborview rollout is done: all 40 homes are live, but the job finished three weeks late and slightly over budget. Leadership does not want a blame session, they want to know what actually happened and what changes to make so the next neighborhood job does not repeat it.

You deliver: A retrospective report with what went well, what went wrong, root causes, and prioritized owned action items.

Scored on: Honest and balanced, Root cause analysis, Evidence linked, Prioritized action items.

Working from: project_closeout.csv, team_feedback.md.

How the scoring works

Each deliverable is graded against the rubric written for that mission. Separately, every mission on every path is graded on how you used AI, against the same four criteria:

  • Understood the task. The learner framed the goal for the assistant clearly instead of pasting the brief and hoping.
  • Grounded in the material. The learner directed the assistant into the provided files and based the work on them, not on invented facts.
  • Verified the output. The learner checked claims, numbers, or coverage against the source material before submitting.
  • Iterated with judgment. The learner refined weak parts of the draft with specific follow-ups rather than accepting the first answer.

Both scores, with the work behind them, go on your proof profile. That is what makes a claim like "I can use AI for project management" something an employer can check.