- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Time
- 60–85 min
State the falsifiable claim
Describe the user or research problem, baseline, success measure, constraints, and your personal ownership before explaining the solution.
What to demonstrate: Could the project have failed by its original definition?
Connect architecture to uncertainty
Walk through the architecture as a series of decisions. For each major component, identify the uncertainty it reduced and one rejected alternative.
What to demonstrate: Does every component earn its place?
Open the misleading result
Present one result that initially pointed in the wrong direction. Explain how you detected the problem, isolated the cause, and changed the evaluation or implementation.
What to demonstrate: Can you distinguish debugging evidence from a convenient story?
Defend what shipped
Separate measured outcome, operational behavior, unresolved limitation, and the next experiment. Then explain what would break if scale or constraints changed by an order of magnitude.
What to demonstrate: Are the claims bounded by the actual evidence?