Free tool · for team leads & managers
Skills Matrix Starter Board
A skills matrix shows who on your team can do what. This free starter board lets you try the idea on a small team — six people across eight skills: score each person 0-5 on each skill and watch the cells color themselves into a heat map. Download it, fill it in, and see your coverage — and the skills only one person can do — take shape.
Take it with you — free, no signup
Direct download. No email, no account — just the files.
What it does
- Scores a small team 0-5 on each skill, from No skill to Expert, so capability is a number you can defend.
- Colors every cell by score into a heat map, so depth and thin spots read at a glance.
- Counts coverage per skill and flags any single point of failure — the skills only one person can do.
- Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice — no macros, no signup, nothing saved anywhere but your own file.
Own it, don't rent it
Want the whole picture, not just one team?
This free board shows the idea on one small team. The full Skills Matrix does it all for you across every skill — a required level per skill, gap analysis against real project demand, a key-person-risk tab, a development plan, and a team dashboard, in one owned nine-tab spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice).
A one-time purchase you keep and reuse across your whole team — the structured board between a blank spreadsheet and a rented per-seat platform.
A record-keeping and planning template, not HR, legal, or compensation advice, and not a certification of anyone's competence. It's a tool for growing a team, not a scorecard to rank people by. The example team is fictional and illustrative. Free to use; please don't resell or redistribute.