October 2020 - SFIA 8 consultation update
A 2 minute update on the SFIA 8 consultation - and a reminder of how you can get involved.
Estimated reading time - 2 min, 2 sec.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning...
- SFIA is well placed to support a full lifecycle view for AI/ML - build, train, deploy, evaluate, tune
- We are investigating SFIA 7 skills such as Analytics (INAN) - with potential to refine and extend these for AI/ML focussed skills
- SFIA 7 has a rich set of already-defined skills which support the development and deployment of AI/ML solutions.
- e.g. skills for data management, data governance, devops, security, testing, quality assurance, service management, technical governance, business change management
Scientific and High-performance Computing...
- A working group from the Australian Public Sector is looking at this specialist area
- We will share the results of these investigations and any proposals for change
Service management skills and roles...
- The aim of this theme is to review evolving practices e.g. those described in ITIL 4 and SIAM models
- We have created a draft mapping of ITIL® 4 practice areas to SFIA skills
- Thanks to Trevor Jinks, David Wynack, Simon Roller, Barry Corless, Michael Davies for progressing this
- This page also lists generic service management roles.
- We plan to create complementary service management SFIA skills profiles.
- These will be published alongside our growing set of standard industry skills profiles.
Readability...
- The SFIA framework provides a comprehensive reference relating to industry skills and competencies
- The aim of this theme is to make this information easy to read and to navigate
- Improved readability also helps translation from English into other languages (SFIA is currently available in 10 languages)
- Thanks to Susan McCarthy, Amanda Robinson, Peter Leeson, Steve Dusting, Ernest Stabek, Andy Andrews, Andy Thomson, Miroslav Pavlovic who have volunteered to help so far
Employability...
- We are looking at enhancing the initial SFIA levels (level 1, 2 and 3) to better describe levels of competency at entry level.
- This will help bridge the gap between education, employment and apprenticeships
- We will be meeting with the leaders of the CC2020 initiative to see how SFIA can support it's aims
Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) is a joint project launched by professional computing societies to examine the current curricular guidelines for academic
degree programs in computing and provide a vision for the future of computing.
Testing skills...
- A number of change requests have been created alongside supporting documents
- Thanks to Angela Martland and Dan Martland (no relation) for their support
Soft skills in SFIA...
- This work has generated a lot of interest and positive feedback.
- We will be using this analysis to support further investigations such as ...
- reviewing SFIA's generic levels of responsibility
- guidance for how organisations can use SFIA with or without a standalone behavioural competence framework
We want to include more people…
- If you would like to help with SFIA 8 or share your ideas with the SFIA Foundation, then contact me
- The key themes for SFIA 8 are here
You can invite others to join in…
- Get them to submit individual change requests on the website
- Ask organizations to contact me e.g. for a collaborative approach such as framework mappings and focused
- Please contact me or use this form to let me know you are interested
SFIA Updates Manager & SFIA 8 Project Manager