Competency Lifecycle Roadmap: Toward Performance Readiness

Workforce effectiveness relies on two critical characteristics: competence and readiness. This technical note describes the Competency Lifecycle Roadmap (CLR), a preliminary roadmap for understanding and building workforce readiness, developed by the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Development and Training team at the CERT® Program, part of Carnegie Mellon® University's Software Engineering Institute. This note provides an early look at the roadmap, highlights some of its uses to date, and discusses potential next steps in its development and transition.