Andy Doyle UK Corporate Sales Manager BCS Solutions for Business

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Andy Doyle UK Corporate Sales ManagerBCS
Solutions for Business
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Agenda

• SFIA / SFIAplus introduction
• SFIA 3 4 update
• How organisations typically use SFIAplus
• Questions

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Your knowledge of SFIA/SFIAplus
Level Depth
0 No experience
1 Aware
2 Familiar
3 Proficient
4 Expert
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SFIA and SFIAplus

• SFIA
• high level framework
• 2-D model
• SFIAplus
• detailed
• 3-D model
• training and development

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Related SFIA skills
Background
Technical overview
Work Activities
Careers jobs
Knowledge/Skills
Professional bodies
Training Activities
Standards, Codes of Practice
Communities and Events
Professional Development Activities
Publications Resources
Qualifications
Training, development qualifications overview
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Activities to date

• Consultation
• Analysis
• Areas of change
• Consolidation and drafting

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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 gt 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

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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.

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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

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Areas of change (cont)

• Four new skills
• Business Modelling
• Requirement Definitions Management
• IT Governance
• Portfolio Management

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Launch

• Annual SFIA conference
• 4th December 2008
• Conference Centre of BERR
• (Department for Business,
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform),
• 1 Victoria Street, London
• www.sfia.org.uk

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Updating SFIAplus

• Over 80 reviewers
• 2 reviewers per skill
• December launch
• Current customers will receive dynamic update of
  new version

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Professionalism Journey
Government IT competency framework
? external validation
? manage skills
? Develop skills
?use skills benchmark
? assess existing skills
? Describe skill requirements
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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