Competency Management System Development and Maintenance

Business Challenge

Customer’s software solution for skills management is already in demand among companies. Generally speaking, firms use this software for skills tracking and employee assessments. In the long run companies have structured overviews of their staff qualifications. Surely, this helps to manage and allocate their available resources in a rational way.

In order to strengthen the existing development team the customer started to search for the additional software engineer. First of all, he was interested in the person with strong background in C#, SQL Server, SOLID principles, REST Web Service and Design Patterns.

Solution

In the short term, a software engineer with the required skills joined the customer’s development team. In brief, the responsibilities of the software developer on this skills-tracking project are the following:

• Focused on cultivating relationships to drive SDLC excellence
• Built and maintained API utilizing ASP.NET Web API 2 platform running on highly loaded servers that have more than a million users
• Support & development of code and unit tests in a continuously integrated environment
• Highly engaged in data science – optimized raw queries/stored procedures to deliver maximum server performance and zero downtime
• Devised and deployed a Redis-based caching solution that generated 4X improved website speed
• Fixed bugs with different complexity
• Partially involved in responsive front-end development with Bootstrap 4 and SPA development with Angular 15

How Does Skills Management Software Work?

Competency management software is a solution that enables organizations to track, manage as well as assess employee skills in several clicks. Furthermore, this system connects different departments like operations and HR within one organization and provides access to the necessary information to facilitate work. Indeed, skill matrix software helps not only to generalize the info about employees but also to present it in an accessible and understandable form. 

In general, the customer’s solution for technical competence storage has the following functionality:

• Single employee dashboard gives a detailed overview of the person. It includes the competency skill list, where employee’s strengths are determined. Also, this view highlights skill gaps and provides learning resources to level up the corresponding competency.
• Team skills matrix template visualizes top skills and gaps within the team. This view helps managers to identify team strengths and weaknesses to assign them precisely the task that the team will be able to perform most professionally. Moreover, managers can search for employees with the required competencies in this skills matrix template.
• A flexible technical competence assessment form comes in handy when it is needed to assess employee skills. Various assessment approaches are available. For instance, quizzes, checklists, and other approaches.
• Assignment workbench provides a parent-child taxonomy of skills and certifications.
• Talent finder provides an ability to search for employees with exact skills that match job requirements. Administrators can execute searches by various attributes and criteria.
• A planning board allows organizations to plan the capabilities and their allocation. To put it differently, the board helps to analyze competency overages or vice versa skills deficits. Based on this information managers can generate development plans for the employees and cover skill gaps.

Notably, skill assessment software is used by organizations from different industries such as healthcare, field services, manufacturing, etc. In addition to skills tracking, the competency management system ensures compliance with the workforce’s technical competence.

Business Impact

Hiring software developer as an extension to the existing development team, the customer covered his need in additional resources. Software engineer found common language with other team members and is currently productively performing the assigned tasks. The developer attends meetings / plannings, clearly reports on the status of work to the managers, and provides estimates for the tasks. The engineer is fully engaged in the process of skill matrix software development / maintenance and performs his work at the highest level.

Chudovo: Custom Skills Management Software Provider

Chudovo is a reliable provider of custom software development services. Our company works in industry for more than 15 years and has in its portfolio projects related to competency management system implementation. We could help your business if you have following needs:

• Development of skills management software from scratch. competency management system – solution for employee skills tracking, management and assessment.
• Development of random modules that are somehow related to the skills tracking and allocation. For example, we have in our portfolio handyman search service and marketplace for hiring IT professionals. Both solutions are different, but they have employee modules. In these modules company owners present the employees with their top skills and offer their services to other companies.
• Maintenance and support for your existing competency management system

Our engineering team is ready to take over your software development project and help by realisation of skills management software for your business. Let’s talk about your needs in the field of competency management!