ATM: Advanced Test ManagerDemo

Consider the following skills-assessment spreadsheet for your four-person test team:

The spreadsheet contains three sections: technical expertise, testing skills, and professionalism.

For every skill area in both the technical expertise and testing skills sections, team members are rated on a four-point scale:

• E (Expert): the person has expert knowledge and experience in the skill area.
• B (Beginner): the person has some knowledge and experience in the skill area but is not autonomous.
• W (Wants to learn): the person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area but wants to learn it.
• NI (Not Interested): the person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area and is not interested in learning it.

For each skill area in the professionalism section, ratings use a three-point scale (H = High, M = Medium, L = Low).

You are using this skills-assessment spreadsheet to define a training-development plan for the test team. Your objective is to close skill gaps by ensuring that, for every skill identified in the technical expertise and testing skills sections, at least one team member is rated as an expert and can train the other team members.

Because of budget limitations, you can send only one person to a training course.

Based only on the information provided, which option would be expected to be the best way to achieve the objective?