Glossary
Short definitions for the terms used across these docs. Where two terms are close, the difference is called out explicitly.
People and access
User: anyone who can sign in to decídalo. Every user has exactly one account.
Account: the sign-in record (email, password, permission profile). Distinct from Profile.
Profile: a person's professional record inside decídalo: master data, projects, skills, certificates, trainings, roles. A profile may exist without an account (e.g. a freelancer you track but who doesn't log in). See Understanding Profiles, Accounts & CVs.
Permission Profile: a named bundle of permissions. Every account gets exactly one. The five standard profiles are Restricted, Employee, Team Manager, Resource Manager and Admin; your organisation can rename them and add its own. See Permission concept.
Delegation: a temporary hand-off of someone's responsibilities to another user (e.g. during vacation). See Delegations.
Organization
Tenant: your company's isolated instance of decídalo.
Company: a top-level entity inside a tenant. Tenants can host multiple companies.
Team: a group of consultants reporting to a team manager. Teams have a hierarchy and drive permission scoping (team data).
Resource Group: a cross-team grouping used for staffing (e.g. "available for German-speaking projects"). Different from a team.
Job Family: a higher-level grouping of roles (e.g. "Engineering" containing "Frontend Developer", "Backend Developer", …).
Role: what a consultant does on a project (e.g. "Solution Architect"). Drives the skill profile expected of them.
Documents
CV (also "resume"): a document tailored to a specific opportunity, generated from a profile. A profile is the source; CVs are the output. See Managing & Using CVs.
CV Template: the company's Word or PowerPoint layout that CVs are generated into. Templates are an admin / design responsibility. See CV Templates.
Reference: a one-pager or write-up about a past project, used in proposals to demonstrate experience. See Reference Generation.
Quotation: a generated quotation document for an opportunity. See Quotation Generation.
Skills
Core Skill: a skill the company tracks deliberately as part of its taxonomy. Drives role skill profiles, the skill matrix, and matching. Curated by administrators. See Skill Overview.
Specific Skill: a granular skill (often a specific technology, framework, or tool) added directly to a profile by the consultant. Less curated than core skills.
Top Skill: a skill a consultant highlights as central to their profile.
Skill Catalog: the full collection of skills known to the tenant (core + specific).
Skill Matrix: the cross-team view of who has which skills. See Skill Matrix.
Role Skill Profile: the set of skills expected of someone in a given role; used for matching and gap analysis. See Company Profile: Role Skill Profiles.
Demand and staffing
Project: an engagement that consultants get booked onto. See Projects.
Opportunity: an as-yet-unwon project under discussion with a client.
Resource Request: demand for one or more consultants against a project or opportunity. Has required skills, role, dates, and (often) attached candidates. See Connecting Resource Requests to Projects.
Booking: a confirmed staffing assignment: this consultant, this project, these dates, this percentage.
Soft Booking: a tentative booking, not yet confirmed (e.g. while sales is still negotiating).
Confirmed Booking: a booking with all approvals in place; commits the consultant's time.
Bench: a consultant's unbooked capacity. Visible in the Resource Plan.
Working Time Pattern: the contractual schedule (full-time, 4-day week, …) that defines a consultant's nominal capacity. See Working Time Patterns, Absences & Availability.