Training and Skills Matrix App with Gap Analysis and Training Plan

Training and Skills Matrix App is a working offline app for UAE companies that spend money on training without knowing where the real gaps are. You list your people and skills, set the level each role needs, record where everyone is today, and the app shows the gaps, suggests the cheapest suitable course for each one, keeps a costed training plan and tracks certificates with expiry alerts.

The problem it solves: training budget goes to whoever asks, nobody can say which skills are thin in a team or who could coach, and forklift, first aid or safety certificates lapse because the dates sit in separate files. This puts the skills matrix, the gaps, the plan with its cost and the certificate dates in one place you can print for a management meeting.

What is inside:

• Skills matrix: people by skills, each cell a level from 0 to 3, 4 or 5 with your own level names, colour and number together (not colour alone), filters by department, role and skill category, bulk set that only raises levels, printable A4 landscape
• Role profiles: a role can need a different level than the skill default, so a Sales Executive and an Operator are measured against what each actually needs
• Gap analysis by skill, person and department, with coverage warnings when fewer people than your minimum are at level, who could coach, and a printable individual development plan per person
• Courses with provider, level reached, price in AED, hours and optional certificate validity; Suggest plan from gaps picks the cheapest suitable course (lowest price, then fewest hours, then name) and shows a preview before anything is added
• Training plan with status, date and cost override; cost by month, by department and by skill; cancelled entries excluded
• Mark done: records the completion date, can raise the person's level and creates or renews the certificate record
• Certifications with three alert windows (default 90, 60, 30 days), days left shown in words as well as colour, add renewal to plan, printable expiring list
• CSV import of levels and people with line-numbered errors, CSV exports, JSON backup and restore, example data

Who it is for: owners, HR and operations managers, safety officers and department heads in small and mid-size UAE businesses.

How it differs from neighbours: the staff performance review pack rates performance over a period; this maps skills against what a role needs and plans the training. The employee visa and document expiry tracker watches ID documents; this tracks training certificates and links each to the course that renews it.

What it is NOT: it does not book courses, send reminders, store certificate scans, connect to a training provider or government system, or tell you which certificates the law requires. It contains no UAE rules, so which certificates your people need and how long they last comes from your regulator, insurer, client or provider. A gap is a planning aid, not an assessment of a person. Course prices in the example data are illustrations only.

Verified by running it in headless Chromium with 33 scripted checks through the real screens (matrix editing, CSV import with bad rows, gap totals, plan suggestions, mark done, cost roll-ups, certificate windows, backup and restore, print pages), and by comparing the engine with an independent Python model over random cases (1,007 checks, zero mismatches, including cost ties, gaps with no suitable course and month-end certificate dates). The same scripted flows were also run in WebKit. It was not tested in Firefox and not opened on a real phone; the layout was checked at 375 px and 1280 px.

Requirements: a modern browser (a modern browser). Works offline; your data stays in the browser on your device, so export a backup regularly.