Skills Matter (www.skillsmatter.com) supports a large community of software professionals developing their skills and connecting with other like-minded people. They support and run hundreds of meetups, user groups, talks and conferences while providing online resources for developers to learn and connect.
Having received venture capital investment, Skills Matter wanted to modernize their web presence to improve how it listened to, communicated with and worked alongside its members. They had started a migration to Rails and needed to accelerate development while growing their delivery capabilities. The project goals they presented to Pivotal Labs were to:
- Modernize and bring Skills Matter’s web presence up to speed with its strong leadership role within the developer community
- Accelerate its web development while growing its delivery capabilities
- Implement powerful search, a streamlined user experience, new social and user-oriented features and adaptable architecture
- Create a flexible platform that supports growth and change
Prior to working with Skills Matter, Pivotal Labs had helped many companies re-platform using the Rails technology stack. Of particular relevance to the Skills Matters website was our recent experience building and launching a developer-focused site emphasizing multi-faceted search. The knowledge gained greatly accelerated our delivery of a rich and powerful search for the Skills Matter website.
Through our co-innovation partnership with Skills Matter, we developed a website that has strengthened the developer community’s ability to network and share their knowledge. Skills Matter is enabled to be faster and smarter about reaching out to and communicating with its 50,000-person community of developers – the community that Skills Matter keeps at the centre of everything it does so that it can offer constant opportunities to learn and share.
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