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Organizational Project Skill Demand

Question: How many organizations are using this project and could hire me if I become proficient?

Overview

Organizational Project Skill Demand metric is aimed at determining downstream demand of skills related to an open source project. This metric looks at organizations that deploy a project as part of an IT infrastructure, other open source projects with declared dependencies, and references to the project through social media, conference mentions, blog posts, and similar activities. Developers, could invest their skills and time in a project that has a likelihood of getting them a decent paying job in the future. They can use the Downstream Organizational Impact of a Project Software metric to discover which projects are used by organizations, and they may, therefore, be able to pursue job opportunities with, possibly requiring IT support services.

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Data Collection Strategies

  • Google search trends for a project
  • Other projects that are dependent on a project
  • Blog or tweet about a project
  • Number of organizations that mention a project in open hiring requests
  • Number of organizations that are represented at meetups about this project

Visualizations

The following visualization demonstrates the number of downstream projects dependendent on the project in question. While this visualization does not capture the entirety of the Downstream Organizational Impact of a Project Software metric, it provides a visual for a portion.

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Other visualizations could include Google search trends (React vs. Angular vs. Vue.js)

Google Trends

ThoughtWorks publishes a series called 'Tech Radar' that shows the popularity of technologies.

TechRadar

Tech Radar allows you to drill down on projects to see how the assessment has changed over time.

Assessment

StackOverview publishes an annual developer's survey

StackOverflow


References

Contributors

  • Matt Germonprez
  • Kevin Lumbard
  • Georg Link
  • Peculiar C Umeh

Additional Information

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