Creating a Skills Matrix
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Team Setup
Practices
Agile Manifesto
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Introduction
A team skills matrix makes people’s skills transparent. It’s a useful artefact that helps with:
- Resource planning – do we have the skills to deliver the goals of future work?
- Refining the Product Backlog – do we have the skills to deliver upcoming work?
- Succession planning – who can take over when someone goes on holidays?Â
- Training needs – who needs to improve their skills so our team has an improved delivery capability?
RETROSPECTIVE ACTIVITY
Create the skills matrix as part of establishing the team.
Assess skill level
Use a simple 1-5 scale. Self-assessment is sufficient.
Love it or hate it?
Use an emoji to represent whether you like doing that work
Identify the gaps
Where are the team's weak points?
Plan improvements
Create a plan to strengthen skills and learn new ones using a team professional development plan.
Update the skills matrix at a Retrospective about once every 6-9 months.
DOWNLOAD SKILLS / EMOJI MATRIX
Download and use the skills matrix for your own team.
References
1. Hodgson, M. R., and Horrigan, M. B. (2021) Agile Essentials.
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