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The Skills Mapping Tool is an innovative solution designed to connect individuals with the right skills to form virtual teams. Whether you need web developers or other professionals, this tool allows you to search by name, skill levels, or team composition. Key features include a tree-based skill search, a star-based ranking system for quick knowledge assessments, and a dynamic help window to clarify skill definitions. It enables team creation for projects or training sessions, fostering collaboration across geographies. Explore this powerful tool for efficient staffing and project management.
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The Skills Mapping Tool in depth May 23rd, 2006
What is it? • It is a tool designed to cross-interact people, their skills and their knowlegde level on that given skill; it is a searching and grouping tool which finds the professional that you want, with the skills that you need and assemble your own virtual teams. • John Smith, Team Lead: • Looking for skilled web developers for the new incoming brand website project • Sarah Johnson, web developer: • Average xHTML knowledge; • High-level Javascript programmer; • Has teaching skills in PHP; • Wide researches about 3D modeling.
Features highlights • Allows you to find the right professional for the right project by several different ways: searching by the name, by the desired skills, or viewing a whole manager’s team. • The tool also organizes your search results, so you can better know your staff and the professionals you’ve just searched for. • The search by skill gives you a tree-based list, allowing you search by a lot of criteria at the same time: moreprecision; • A star-based ranking allows you to quickly view the knowledge levels; • A dynamic help window guides you to better understand what each skill means; • Its interface is at same time fast, easy and powerful, using cutting-edge web technologies.
Search • There are three ways to perform your search: • by the employee name; • by skill and level; • A popup with a tree of skills will be opened. You can even select more than one skill. • by employee manager. • choose one of the above methods, and simply press
Results • A list of all skills for this employee. • A star ranking gives you an easy preview of each knowledge level • Person’s BlueCard allows you to see detailed information retrieved from BluePages records. • A list of all employees with the desired skill levels. • On mouse over: skill’s brief definition.
Virtual Teams • With Virtual Teams you’ll be able to create a team for a project or a study group. Perhaps a common-skilled group which can solve problems. Or arrange a training session for developers in your team with low levels in a given technology. Possibilities are endless. • For the Global Staffing initiative, the Virtual Teams feature will allow you to group skilled professionals from different geographies
Technologies • PHP 5 outputting XML and xHTML; • mySQL Server or any SQL-based database; • BluePages LDAP; • Javascript using AJAX techniques. • This application is Web 2.0
Contact information If you need further information about the Skills Mapping Tool, please do not hesitate contacting any of the following people: • Alexander Blagus/Brazil/Contr/IBM • Walter Gongora Junior/Brazil/Contr/IBM The beta version is up and running at: • http://skillsmapping.bluehost.ibm.com/