Organizational Skill Matrix

Keeping track of skills within organization's resources is as important as keeping track of Application and Technology Portfolio. Strategy changes every now and then and individual skills needs to catch up with changing needs. We have seen many strategic initiative to adhere to latest Technology, whether in the form of new addition or upgrade of existing one. Similarly, resources are trained as per project needs. There are ways to track these skills within organization so that in time of need, leadership could assess their resource portfolio and make informed decision.

Basic Skill Matrix

Basic Skill Matrix comprise of tabular representation of Resources/Employee Object and Skills. It could be represented as show in Basic Skill Matrix Meta-Model. In this model we can capture the skill levels of each employee. In a practical use, a resource manager will refer to this model and identify the gap, which he would be looking for.

Advanced Skill Matrix

The advanced Skill Matrix is based on the concept defined in  TOGAF Architecture Skills Framework.

The concept captures three different aspects of Skill Matrix 

1. Organizational Role 
2. Skills 
3. Employee (Resource) 

With addition of Organization Role in the Skill Matrix, the model provides ready to use information quickly. It opens an entire new horizon of possibilities around managing enterprise resources with reference to Skills. This could be a great tool for leadership. For example: If the organization strategy is to take the Application Portfolio towards Big-Data, then the first task would be to create list of all Resource Roles a Big-Data Application would require. E.g. Big-Data Architect, Lead, Developer, Analyst, Big-Data Scientist, etc. Once these roles are defined, list of Skills could be defined, which would be nothing but the Technology Skills. Finally, we could collect information about employees skills. Finally we can generate report template which could be a one time task to report on various parameters.

This will give a pre-baked report about a person A, that in which all Organizational Role he/she can fit into. You as a lead, don't have to set-up a call or research in existing matrix in order to identify base capabilities of your resources. E.g. It can help you take decision to move a Project-1 person to Project-2.