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I am creating a project plan. The template for my project says I need to have various sorts of documentation as deliverables from certain steps--I need a business case, functional specs, design specs, test specs, user doc, and marketing collateral, for example.
I need resources (people) to create the documents. I can get the right people if I can match the skills required to create the documents with the people who have those skills.
At this point I am looking for success in meeting project needs; I am not looking forward to the day when I have to hold someone accountable for failure. So a skills matrix is not for beating you about the head with a stick.
Basically, I need to know if the team I put together can, among them, understand the technology; write, edit, and produce engineering documents; and write, edit, and produce user documents and marcomm.
So those are the interesting skills:
Engineering docs:
Research and write
Edit
Produce
User docs:
Research and write
Edit
Produce
I would not drill down to the tools level. If someone is identified as having production skills, presumably that token refers to production skills within your company's tools environment.
>I've been asked to contribute to our a company wide skills matrix. Each area
>will have it's own matrix with one being 'general' attributes such as time
>planning, business awareness etc etc. Each 'skill' is broken into two levels
>(or three if required).
>
>So (and this is probably more of a check) what should I put down for
>TechComms?
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>My main concern is missing something obvious and making a rod for our backs
>later on (not sure how this matrix is going to be used, just that it MUST
>been done... ho hum)
>
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