An artifact-centric method for creating software job descriptions

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an approach to creating job descriptions for roles within software development project teams. An artifact-centric skill framework has been created, which suggests a way that each company can create meaningful job descriptions, based on the artifacts a person works on and the people s/he cooperates with. This paper will describe the framework, before presenting real-world example job descriptions and their equivalent artifact-centric variants.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.1 Occupations

General Terms:
Human Factors, Theory

Keywords:
abilities, grounded theory, irish telecommunications software, job descriptions, knowledge, skills, software artifacts