Introduction to SFIA

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Introduction to SFIA

• Skills Framework for the Information Age
• Mike Chad

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Defining the skills we need

• Traditionally -
• Programming
• Analysis/Design
• Operations
• Support
• Management

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Why?

• Constant evolution in IT
• Commodity technical skills are going overseas
• New Skills profile
• Business aware, good communicator, able to manage
  business relationships, creative, innovative,
  leadership ability
• (Computing)

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Further evidence

• CIOs need to work hard to bridge a growing gap
  between IT and the business
• 63 of UK businesses expect to increase their
  market share in 2007. while CIOs focus on IT
  services quality, governance and alignment
• CIOs require to really understand the business
  model.. build agility into the technology
  foster innovation
• (Gartner 2007 CIO Agenda Survey)

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Defining the skills we need

• Yesterday
• Programming
• Analysis/Design
• Operations
• Support
• Management

• Today
• Innovation
• Transformation
• Communication
• Leadership.

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Managing the IT resources in different
environments

• What skills have we got?
• What level of skill? Basic? Expert?
• How many?
• How can we evaluate?
• What do we need?

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Understand the Strategic context

• What are strategic business objectives?
• How does IT enable them?
• How are they supported by the current people
  development processes?
• What is the HR strategy/ HR objectives?
• What are senior management views on
  professionalism, skill needs, rate of change?

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Create a Skills Management Strategy

• Determine the business case for skills/resource
  management, professional development, and other
  strategic change
• Analyse professional development
  processes/strategy vs a Maturity Model of
  professional development

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Create Skills Directory

• Determine the key Skills
• Establish a measurement framework
• Create a skills matrix
• Re-invent the wheel?

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Skills Framework

• SFIA describes what people do, not necessarily
  what their jobs are called
• introduction to SFIA

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• IET
• eSkills
• IMIS
• BCS

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Skill Categories

• Strategy and planning
• Development
• Business change
• Service provision
• Procurement and management support
• Ancillary

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Examples

• System design
• P 16
• Network Control Operation
• P 28
• Project Management
• P 22
• Innovation
• P 12

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Role Profiles

• Based on one or more SFIA Skills

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Planning development
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Personal development
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Planned Professional Development
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The Process Assess Individual Skill Needs

• Where am I now?
• Skills Framework (SFIA or SFIAplus)
• Where do I want/need to be?
• Skills Matrix (organisations needs)
• How can I get there
• Development process -gt

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The Process Development Cycle
Development Objectives, based on Skill needs, and
Actions to achieve them
Create Cycle
Practitioner Manager
Pursue Actions
Practitioner
Create Journals, linked to planned Actions
Record Progress
Practitioner
Review Progress
Agree new Actions as appropriate
Practitioner Manager
Verify Record Sign off Cycle
Add comments to close cycle
Manager
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Integrate the Personal Development Process with
Performance Management

• Formalise the Development Process
• Agree parameters for measuring the effectiveness
  of the process
• Eg time frames, quality criteria, filling skills
  gaps
• Set performance targets, using these parameters

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SFIA version 4

• Update process now WIP
• Consultation website
• Stage 1 May June
• Consolidate proposed changes
• Stage 2 August September
• Launch at SFIA conference in November

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SFIA update

• www.sfia.org.uk
• Help define SFIA version 4

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Questions?

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