Applications Inventory and Attributes - Skills and Competencies attributes for the Applications Inventory
Applications Inventory and Attributes
Chapter 25. Skills and Competencies attributes for the Applications Inventory
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Core Concepts
| Concept | Definition & Strategic Role |
|---|---|
| Required skills | Records the skills needed to run and evolve the application. |
| Skill risk | Captures skill-gap indicators and availability ratings for continuity planning. |
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Question: Where do subject-matter experts belong?
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Skills and Competencies attributes capture the human capabilities required to support each application.
| Attribute Name | Maturity | Description and Notes |
|---|---|---|
Related Skills [Multi-Value] | Walk | Description — The skills and competencies required to develop, support, and evolve this application. Benefit(s) — Makes the human-capability dependency explicit, so skill gaps and key-person risks are visible and plannable. Source — Manual. Notes — Typed, multi-value relationship to governed Skill instances. Examples — Java; Kubernetes; Oracle DBA; SAP ABAP |
| Critical Skill Gap Indicator | Walk | Description — Whether a critical shortage exists in the skills required to support this application. Benefit(s) — Flags applications at risk from insufficient skilled resources. Source — Manual. Examples — None; At Risk; Critical Gap |
| Skills Availability Rating | Walk | Description — How readily the skills required to support this application are available internally and in the market. Benefit(s) — Informs sourcing, retention, and continuity decisions. Source — Manual. Examples — Abundant — widely available internally and in the market; Adequate — sufficient current coverage but a thin bench; Scarce — few qualified resources, hiring and retention risk; Critical — no reliable internal or external supply, single-person or vendor-locked |
Note: subject-matter experts for this application are modeled as a stakeholder relationship and are governed in this inventory’s Ownership and Stakeholder attributes as Subject Matter Expert(s), not in this category.
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