Efficient project planning from a human resource point of view requires projectoriented organization forms to take into account the permanent change of requirements and framework conditions during the duration of a project correctly. Skill management systems are an excellent management tool for this challenge, if in addition to default skill profiles the employees’ competence and experience room is defined. This paper describes a best practice skill management model that takes into account compared with other approaches the attributes time and duration and builds up an experience tree of the employees by link technique. Further the factors are represented, which play a role during the conversion of the model in practice.

BEKO-SMS is a knowledge-based skill management system that combines projectplanning and human resource management. Application and system functions model specific skills and relationships used in a particular project. The definition of skills, skill trees, skill updating and other processes form the basis for the success factors of the SMS. We conclude that efficient project resource planning would not be possible without SMS and the skill manager.