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SFIA View: Data solutions - development and implementation Beta

Data solutions - development and implementation

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Product management PROD

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Managing and developing products or services throughout their full lifecycle, from inception through growth, maturity, and decline, to retirement.

Solution architecture ARCH

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Developing and communicating a multi-dimensional solution architecture to deliver agreed business outcomes.

Infrastructure design IFDN

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Designing technology infrastructure to meet business requirements, ensuring scalability, reliability, security and alignment with strategic objectives.

Systems design DESN

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Designing systems to meet specified requirements and agreed systems architectures.

Programming/software development PROG

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Developing software components to deliver value to stakeholders.

Systems development management DLMG

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Planning, estimating and executing systems development work to time, budget and quality targets.

Software design SWDN

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Architecting and designing software to meet specified requirements, ensuring adherence to established standards and principles.

Functional testing TEST

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Assessing specified or unspecified functional requirements and characteristics of products, systems and services through investigation and testing.

Non-functional testing NFTS

(new)

Assessing systems and services to evaluate performance, security, scalability and other non-functional qualities against requirements or expected standards.

Process testing PRTS

(new)

Assessing documented and undocumented process flows within a product, system or service against business needs through investigation and testing.

Business situation analysis BUSA

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Investigating business situations to define recommendations for improvement action.

Feasibility assessment FEAS

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Defining, evaluating and describing business change options for financial, technical and business feasibility and strategic alignment.

Requirements definition and management REQM

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Managing requirements through the entire delivery and operational lifecycle.

Content design and authoring INCA

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Planning, designing and creating content that meets user-centred and organisational needs, encompassing textual information, graphical content and multimedia elements.

Content publishing ICPM

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Managing processes to collect, assemble and publish content across various channels to meet organisational and audience needs.