Andy Doyle UK Corporate Sales Manager

BCS Solutions for Business

Agenda

• SFIA / SFIAplus introduction

• SFIA 3 – 4 update

• How organisations typically use SFIAplus

• Questions

Your knowledge of SFIA/SFIAplus

Level Depth

0 No experience

1 Aware

2 Familiar

3 Proficient

4 Expert

SFIA and SFIAplus

• SFIA– high level

framework– 2-D model

• SFIAplus– detailed– 3-D model– training and

development

levels of responsibility

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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

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kills

Related SFIA skills

Technical overview

Careers & jobs

Professional bodies

Standards, Codes of Practice

Communities and Events

Publications & Resources

Training, development & qualifications overview

Background

For each skill, SFIA gives an overall definition and definitions at various levelsOverall definition of

skill64 5

defines 78 skills and 7 levels

8 additional resources for

each skill

6 additional task

components

SFIApluscontainsall theSFIA

definitionsplus

Work Activities

Knowledge/Skills

Training Activities

Professional Development Activities

Qualifications

Activities to date

• Consultation

• Analysis

• Areas of change– Consolidation and drafting

Consultation

• Update website available since May 2008• 156 users registered, many others have

accessed the site (nearly 9000 “visits”).• Web access report shows an average of >

1100 visitors/month (last time 800-900).• 150+ comments posted on the site• Direct contributions

– from consultative workshops– from the Cabinet Office IT Profession unit– from individuals

Analysis

• Amendments made available on the website, for comment.

• Not all original suggestions got support• Not all comment has been consistent• Like last time, some differences of opinion

related to structure, rather than detail wording

• Skills, grouped “for convenience” into categories and sub-categories.

Areas of change

• Compliance & Audit will be split into two– Technical audit– Compliance review

• Management & Operations will be split into

two– IT Operations– IT Management

Areas of change (cont)

Four new skills

• Business Modelling

• Requirement Definitions & Management

• IT Governance

• Portfolio Management

Launch

Annual SFIA conference

4th December 2008

Conference Centre of BERR(Department for Business,Enterprise and Regulatory Reform),

1 Victoria Street, London

www.sfia-online.org

Updating SFIAplus

• Over 80 reviewers– 2 reviewers per skill

• December launch

• Current customers will receive dynamic update of new version

Professionalism Journey

external validation

manage skills

assessexisting

skills Describe skill

requirements

use skills benchmark

Developskills

Government IT competency framework

Key processes

Create a Team

Create Positions/Team Members in the Team

Assign a Person to a Position

Assign Job Role(s) to a Position

Assign Job Function(s) to a Job Role

Assign a Job Role to the Team