tl;dr: Connectors are the skills engine created by Kipon to manage skills in real time.
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At Kipon, we believe that the process of mapping and updating Skills should be automated and deliver real-time insights and that’s why we created the concept of Connectors: integrations with internal and external data sources that feed our Skills Engine in real time, ensuring continuous updates to your team’s skills and development intentions.
Think about the last time you created an individual development plan for a team member or spent hours meticulously organizing a skills map in a spreadsheet. And then, just a few weeks later...that work was shelved.
New priorities emerged, team members learned new things that you didn’t have time to update in your “skills spreadsheet,” essential skills for brand-new roles slipped through the cracks, people left or joined the team, and you lost track of it all.
Manual processes simply can’t — and never will — keep up with the fast-paced dynamics of tech teams. Integrating real-time data and generating insights about your team's skill profile in an automated way is what will truly help you to hire with precision, offering personalized development opportunities, and assigning the right person to the right project at the right time.
How Connectors Work?
Every member of your team leaves “digital footprints” in the tools they use daily.
A mobile dev coding an app? Their commits on GitHub are a direct reflection of the skills they’re honing. A product manager defining tasks on Linear? Those tasks provide insights into the team’s priorities and focus for that sprint. A highly active contributor reviewing code on Bitbucket? That might indicate not only technical expertise but also strong human skills like communication and collaboration.
These "footprints" are exactly what the Connectors are built to capture. They collect, process, and translate this information into real-time skill data, generating personalized and continuously updated insights about your team's profile, individual and collective development opportunities, hiring needs, internal mobility opportunities, and so on.
Of course, this automated process can—and should—be complemented by manual updates from each team member, creating a hybrid approach that combines the precision of automation with the unique human perspective only an individual can provide.
The advantages for your team
Continuous and Real-Time Skill Updates: Keep your team’s skills overview up-to-date without the need for manual effort
Reliable Data Foundation: Make decisions based on evidence pulled directly from the tools your team already uses
Process Optimization: Save time and cut costs associated with manual methods or generic assessments
Actionable Insights: Spot skill gaps, enable tailored development, and improve team allocation using concrete data
Want to test Connectors with your team?
With Connectors, it becomes truly possible to track your team's skill updates in real time, based on reliable empirical data, through an intelligent skills engine that transforms the expertise signals left by the daily use of tech tools into insights about new skills and levels of expertise.
If you want to see how Connectors can be a game-changer for managing your tech team, sign up for our waiting list.