# Charting your team's knowledge & skills map

DevFeed: [Charting your team's knowledge & skills map](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/charting-your-team-s-knowledge-skills-map-32323.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.manager.dev/newsletter/charting-your-teams-knowledge-skills-map>)

Author: Anton Zaides

Published: 2026-07-21T06:01:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Manager.dev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/manager-dev.md>)

Topics: [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [Claude](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [graph](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graph.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [scope](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scope.md>), [soft-skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/soft-skills.md>)

## AI overview

An engineering manager describes using Unblocked's Social Graph Builder to visualize collaboration and codebase expertise from GitHub pull request history, then explains a spreadsheet-based method for mapping a team's product knowledge, technology skills, soft skills, and non-engineering skills. The article argues that expert knowledge is important for evaluating AI-assisted work with Claude and avoiding harmful implementations in unfamiliar domains.

## Source excerpt

If you rebuilt your team again today, knowing what you know now, would it look the same?