Building a Skills Matrix for all HfLA Program Areas

[kcoronel]

Overview

Bonnie joined our CTJ All Teams Meeting on 4/11, and shared with the team her reasons for why our MVP will need to include a Skills Matrix that allows job posters to list the skills their project is in need of and for job seekers to self-select their skills and their experience within each skill.

We need to create a Skills Matrix for each of HfLA's programatic areas.

Action Items

• Setup Items
  • set-up Skills Matrix spreadsheet with each program area as a new sheet
  • create folder for documents related to this issue
  • add folder URL under resources
    - [ ] Bonnie to move Skills Matrix spreadsheet to folder in CTJ drive
  • create a list of all the Matrix that will need to be created and their timeline for completion
• Once a Skills Matrix is complete
  • create a new issue for the completed Skills Matrix that includes the following tasks:
  • research team will reach out to respective CoP and ask to be included in the agenda to review the Skills Matrix with CoP
  • an alternative to the above may be taken, with Bonnie providing names of volunteers that the Research team

Workflows and Timeline:

• Create a Skills Matrix for Design
• Create a Skills Matrix for Research
• Create a Skills Matrix for Engineering
  - Bonnie will request this from the Engineering Community of Practice
  - Timeline: End of April
• Create a Skills Matrix for Data
  - Bonnie will request this from the Data Science Community of Practice
  - Timeline: Early May
• Create a Skills Matrix for PM (Project and Product)
  - Karen to add to the Product Management Community of Practice agenda for 4/14)
  - Timeline: End of April
• Create a Skills Matrix for Dev Ops
  - Bonnie will ask them (but may take some time, because they have another task to complete)
  - Timeline: TBD

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For Future iterations (this is now captured in issue #568)

• Create a Skills Matrix for Community Management (we call it admin but we should move to calling it Community Management which is industry standard)
  - TBD
• Create a Skills Matrix for Content
  - CTJ Research team to talk to UI/UX Community of Practice about developing this
  - Timeline: TBD
• Create a Skills Matrix for SEO/Marketing
  - Bonnie may have something to get us started on this
  - Timeline: TBD
• Create a Skills Matrix for Fundraising
  - Bonnie will ask Chelsea if she can begin working on this
  - Timeline: End of May

Resources/Instructions

• CoP link to leads
• List of HfLA Projects - look only at active projects
• Skills Matrix folder
• HfLA Skills and Experience Matrix
• [Epic] Skills Matrix Feature #567 Issue for Research on Skills Matrix content

[kcoronel]

@bonniewolfe assigned you to this issue regarding the skills matrix and timeline.

Copying @salimays @Aveline-art @melkosm @jenchuu

[kcoronel]

@ngadoq transferred this issue to you :) We talked about having you:

Completing the soft skills matrix?
Reaching out to communities of practices that haven’t completed their matrix.

Question from Nga: I'd complete this using my own experience right? Also, do we need multiple inputs for each matrix?
Response from Karen: I say a combination. Your experience + research on what soft skills organizations similar to hack for la (open source/non profit/ volunteer run and led) are describing in their pages, job descriptions, etc.
Question from Nga: One more question, are the skills limited to the important ones or do we want to include as many as possible?
Response from Karen: Let’s do as many as possible and cut down as we see fit - I liked this list :) Zapier Soft Skills List

Hello @ngadoq! Can you please provide an update here prior to our Tuesday meeting:

• Progress: Discussed with UXR team, team agreed to revisit this with Nga as lead

• Blockers: Need to discuss with Karen/Bonnie on the purpose of the matrix

• Availability: 8-9 PM CDT M-Th, 4-8 PM Sun

• ETA: TBD