How to overcome from project challenges? - 7) Mismatched team skills

A skills mismatch is the difference between the skills required to be successful in a position and the skill set of the employee occupying that position.

This is starts from the hiring due to poor planning and forced to take up mismatched team due to demand and supply of the resources.

Working with Inadequate skills of team members or Mismatched team skills causes negative effects on overall productivity.

How to deal with team skills issue?

Effective project managers pre-determine the needed project management skills and competencies and assess the available workforce to determine whether, additional staff and skillsets are required or not.

An effective project initiation plan will deal with the needs of the project and the resources required to accomplish it. These resources include the human skill component as well. The project plan will further build upon the groundwork of the initiation document.

Once the issue occurs during the execution of the project, as a project manager need to make team as a effective team with below effective team building activities:

This problem is not only faced by a project manager, this problem is faced by the organization and the IT industry, to overcome from the challenge IT industry looking for the full-stack developer.

A Full Stack Developer is someone who works with the Back End or server side of the application as well as the Front End, or client side.

Designing user interactions on the web application itself. Creating servers and databases for the back end of the software. Ensuring cross-platform compatibility and optimization.

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