Software Technologies Inventory and Attributes - Skills and Competencies attributes for the Software Technologies Inventory
Software Technologies Inventory and Attributes
Chapter 26. Skills and Competencies attributes for the Software Technologies Inventory
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Core Concepts
| Concept | Definition & Strategic Role |
|---|---|
| Required Skills | The competencies needed to operate, administer, and troubleshoot the technology. |
| Skill Availability | Whether those competencies exist within the enterprise, and at what depth. |
| Scarcity Risk | The exposure created when a technology depends on skills that are rare internally, rare in the market, or held by one person. |
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Question: Why record skills against a technology rather than against people?
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Skills and competencies attributes record what it takes to run each software technology, and whether the enterprise has it.
| Attribute Name | Maturity | Description and Notes |
|---|---|---|
Required Skills [Multi-Value] | Run | Description — The competencies needed to operate, administer, and troubleshoot the technology. Benefit(s) — Makes the human requirement of a technology explicit, which supports hiring, training, and sourcing decisions. Source — Manual. Notes — Record the skills the technology genuinely demands rather than a general technology-area label. |
| Internal Skill Availability | Run | Description — Whether the required competencies exist within the enterprise, and at what depth. Benefit(s) — Distinguishes a technology the enterprise can actually run from one it merely operates while the knowledge holds. Source — Manual or Derived. Examples — Deep, Adequate, Limited, None Notes — Derivable at Run maturity from the people and skills inventories where they exist. |
| Skill Scarcity Risk | Run | Description — The exposure created when the technology depends on scarce, concentrated, or externally unavailable skills. Benefit(s) — Surfaces a risk no technical assessment finds — a healthy technology that only one person can operate is one departure from unsupportable. Source — Manual or Calculated. Notes — Where a technology has a single subject matter expert and no successor, this attribute is where that shows up as a governed risk. |
| Training and Certification Requirements | Run | Description — Any training or certification required to operate or administer the technology. Benefit(s) — Captures a real cost and lead time of adoption that is routinely omitted from technology decisions. Source — Manual. Notes — Particularly relevant where vendor support entitlements depend on certified staff. |
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