Skill Requirements
Table 15-1 shows the skills that key personnel require to make a first Visual Basic 6 distributed project a success. This information should form the basis of individual training plans.
Table 15-1 Skills Required for a Successful Project
| Skill or Knowledge | Business Analysis | Development | Technical Services |
| Business knowledge and business analysis | High | Medium | Low |
| Project management | High | Low | Low |
| Database modeling | High | High | Medium |
| Help files, user documentation, and the like | High | Medium | Low |
| Awareness of component availability | Medium | High | High |
| Systems analysis | Low | High | Low |
| GUI design skills | Medium | High | Low |
| Visual Basic prototyping | Medium | High | Low |
| Distributed design | Medium | High | High |
| GUI testing | Medium | High | Medium |
| Visual Basic/VBA programming | Low | High | High |
| Diagnostics, logging, trace, error handling | Low | High | High |
| Windows operating system and the PC architecture, memory, and so on | Low | Medium | High |
| Connectivity, performance | Low | Medium | High |
| Networking | Low | Medium | High |
| Server operating system and database, DBA | Low | Medium | High |
| Security, back-out, recovery | Medium | Medium | High |
| Implementation, installation | Medium | Medium | High |