When adopting or impoving your software development process, you need to measure the skills of your team for:-

• Assessing training and mentoring needs for your staff
• Assessing the value of training and mentoring
• Assessing external candidates skills

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There are numerous ways of measuring skills but to be truly effective any skills assessment program must feature the following attributes:-

• Objectivity - no systematic effects introduced by subjective judgement of an interviewer
• Standardisation - no variation in the style and level of assessment
• Scalability - the solution is not dependent on human interviewers
• Repeatability - question pooling to ensure no systematic factors are associated with repetition of assessments

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Improvix offers an on-line skills assessment system that gives you a quantifiable measure of the skill level of your staff.

The following assessment topics are available:-

• RUP Fundamentals
• Requirements Management
• Analyis and Design
• Architecture
• Configuration and Change Management
• Testing

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Certification provides a mechanism for identifying competent practioners and those with the skill level to become mentors.

The skills assessment topics can be combined to form certification tracks for software development disciplines:-

• Project Manager
• Architect
• Analyst
• Designer
• Developer
• Integrator
• Test Manager
• Tester
• Configuration Manager

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