Management of professional development plans and user portfolios

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-usable medium including instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• receive a development plan for one or more users, the development plan including a goal-related aspect associated with a profession;
• automatically determine one or more achievements as being achieved by querying a data store for the one or more achievements and comparing an aspect of the one or more achievements with a completion criteria, the one or more achievements reflecting one or more activities performed by a first user to fulfill the goal-related aspect of the development plan;
• provide for display the one or more achievements automatically determined as being achieved to a user device of the first user;
• responsive to providing for display the one or more achievements, receive an association from the first user of an achievement selected from the one or more achievements automatically determined as being achieved with the goal-related aspect of the development plan;
• and
• associate the achievement with the goal-related aspect of the development plan responsive to receiving the association of the achievement.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a plan management module executable by the one or more processors to receive data representing a development plan for one or more users, the development plan including a goal-related aspect associated with a profession;
• and
• an achievement module executable by the one or more processors to
• automatically determine one or more achievements as being achieved by querying a data store for the one or more achievements and comparing an aspect of the one or more achievements with a completion criteria, the one or more achievements reflecting one or more activities performed by a first user to fulfill the goal-related aspect of the development plan,
• provide for display the one or more achievements automatically determined as being achieved to a user device of the first user,
• responsive to providing for display the one or more achievements, receive an association of an achievement from the first user selected from the one or more achievements automatically determined as being achieved with the goal-related aspect of the development plan, and
• associate the achievement with the goal-related aspect of the development plan responsive to receiving the association of the achievement, the achievement module being coupled to the plan management module or a data store to receive the data representing the development plan.