Analysis

KiCsa defines :

• Employees (fellows)
• Skills, linked together through various and paramerizable relationships (such as "Parent", "See also", "Use", etc.). A set of skills and relationships is called thesaurus.
• Abilities : employees that have some skill(s) at some expertise level

Application end users can be anybody (employees or not). They have :

• rights (which implies some workflow initiation)
  • employee contact (directly, through a workflow, etc.)
  • sub-skill proposal for an existing skill
• duties (worflow), if they have been nominated skill owners (or skill managers)
  • validation/cancellation of sub-skills proposals
  • security rights delegation (in case of vacancy for instance)

Note that :

• The thesaurus :
  • is a network (i.e. can have multiple "Parent" relationships for example) even if is displayed in a tree fashion.
  • can store any term type (not only computer-related for example)
  • can use any relationship type. However some relationship types should be tagged as :
    • "Parent" (to allow a tree view of the thesaurus)
    • "Synonym" (for multi-criteria skill search).
• is KiCsa application-independent.