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Skills Framework for the Information Age
GLOBAL LAUNCH JUNE 2018
The world’s most widely adopted skills and competency framework

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AGENDAAGENDA
• Recap – the aims of SFIA7
• Delivering content
• Creating continuous consultation
• SFIA 7 – what’s new?
• SFIA 7 – what material is available?
• SFIA 7 – help and support available
• Next steps
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Thanks to all contributors
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UK
Collaboration
Global Open Collaboration
UK
Initiatives
Global Continuous
Consultation
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2000
SFIA 1
2005
SFIA 3
2011
SFIA 5
2015
SFIA 6
Continued
development
1992-99
UK industry
frameworks.
2002
SFIA 2
2008
SFIA 4
2014
Global SFIA
Council
2018
SFIA 7

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SFIA continues to evolve to meet
industry and business needs
… sound provenance and proven sustainability
• Easily available
• Flexible to use
• Relevant and useful
• Driven by those with real user experience
• Continuous evolution
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SFIA 7 in numbers
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56
skills have
been updated
9
additional
skills
41
updated skill
descriptions
169
updated skill
level
descriptions
43
new skill
levels added
4
skills retired /
merged

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SFIA 7 Project – Two Aims
Improved Update Approach
• Refined change request process
• Ready for continuous consultation
• Global Design Authority Board
• Constructive debates
• Beta release
• Over 20,000 views / 146 countries
• Minor updates /clarifications
• Proof reading by the user community
• Refined translation process
• Ready for further languages
… successfully implemented improved approaches
for future updates
SFIA Framework Update
• General Updates to the Framework
• Addressed Key Themes
• Digital and Digital Transformation
• Refined skills and created a specific view
• Software Engineering
• Refined skills and added new skills
• Agile / DevOps
• Reviewed skills and created 2 specific views
• Big Data / Informatics
• Refined skills, added skills created a view
• Information / Cyber Security
• Reinforced the importance in the generic
attributes – security is a responsibility for all
• Service Management
• Refined skills and added new skills
• Explicit Knowledge dimension
• Moved knowledge statements to an explicit
Knowledge attribute
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SFIA 7 Deliverables
• SFIA 7 Complete reference
• Major improvements on usability and style
• Added further guidance and updated graphics
• SFIA 7 Summary chart
• SFIA 7 Spreadsheet
• Moving to SFIA 7 guide
• New web pages
• Spanish, German, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese translations being edited
by SFIA users and native speakers
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SFIA 7 Complete reference
Contents
• Skills at a glance
• Key design principles
• Use cases for SFIA
• SFIA and skills management
• How SFIA works
• The context for SFIA
• Levels of responsibility and generic attributes
• Skill descriptions for 102 professional skills
• A to Z skills list
• Using and licensing SFIA
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SFIA 7 Complete reference
• Improved guidance and explanatory notes
• Improved indexing
• Improved spacing and pagination
• PDF includes bookmarks for navigation
• Updated and improved graphics
• Colour coded pages
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SFIA 7 Summary chart
• Overview of all 102 professional skills
• Levels of responsibility and generic attributes
• New Knowledge dimension explicitly listed
• Improved layout
• Context graphic added
… a great overview for new and experienced users
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SFIA 7 Spreadsheet
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SFIA 7 Web pages
• A-Z list of skills
• Skills at a glance
• Updated reference material
• SFIA use cases
• Links to SFIA 7 downloads
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Moving to SFIA 7
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Available on the web – description of the benefits of moving to SFIA 7
Summary and detailed explanation of what has changed

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SFIA Roadmap
• Publication of SFIA Views
• Continued development of our approach
• Continuous consultation to keep discussions
alive
• Engage an even wider group of individuals
and professional bodies in the updates
• Permanent Design Authority Board
• Specialist subject working groups
• Individual roadmaps
• Additional resources on the website
• Enhancements to SFIA Ecosystem
• Translation of additional SFIA material
• Translation to additional languages
Additional guidance for SFIA use
throughout the skills management cycle
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… volunteers to support and collaborate on SFIA development always welcome

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Contact details
The SFIA Foundation is a global
not-for-profit organisation that
oversees the development and use
of the SFIA Framework
The global SFIA Council provides
input to the strategic direction of
SFIA
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Ian Seward
• SFIA Foundation - General Manager
• ops@sfia-online.org
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianseward
Peter Leather
• SFIA7 Update Manager & SME
• Secretary, SFIA Council
• updates@sfia-online.org
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterleather

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THANK YOU
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