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
– detailed
– 3-D model
– training and
development
1|2|3|4|5|6|7
78 skills
• SFIAplus
levels of responsibility
categories of work
– high level
framework
– 2-D model
defines 78 skills and 7 levels
For each skill, SFIA gives an overall definition and
definitions at various levels
Overall definition of
skill
4
8 additional
resources for
each skill
Related SFIA skills
SFIAplus
contains
all the
SFIA
definitions
plus
Technical overview
5
6
6 additional
task
components
Background
Work Activities
Careers & jobs
Knowledge/Skills
Professional bodies
Standards, Codes of Practice
Communities and Events
Publications & Resources
Training, development &
qualifications overview
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
Government IT
competency
framework
 external
validation
 manage
skills
use skills
benchmark
 Describe skill
requirements
 Develop
skills
 assess
existing
skills
Key processes
Create a Team
Assign a Job Role to
the Team
Assign Job Role(s)
to a Position
Create Positions/
Team Members in the Team
Assign a Person to
a Position
Assign Job Function(s)
to a Job Role