August 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 - 1 min, 48 sec.
Behavioural factors in SFIA...
- Out of the SFIA 8 scoping workshop in May came an initiative to explore how SFIA can represent behavioural skills.
- A working group has done some detailed investigation and research into the options
- Thanks to Phil Lovell and Penny Coulter for sharing their progress so far.
- They have come up with an innovative way of showcasing the behavioural factors already present in SFIA 7.
- The next step will be to share this for wider review.
Testing skills...
- We have included testing skills in SFIA since the earliest versions.
- Thanks to Angela Martland for providing insights into the impact of agile working practices, automation, data, security on the roles and skills associated with testing
- We will summarise, suggest improvements and look to publish guidance for the application of SFIA to testing roles
Business analysis skills and roles...
- I listened to an interesting webinar considering the impact of digital technologies, business architecture and solution development approaches on the role of the business analyst.
- I reached out to the panellists to help review SFIA's coverage of business analysis skills.
- All of them offered to help and I had an initial call with Debra Paul and Christina Lovelock to come up with an approach.
- Both are very familiar with SFIA and have extensive experience of creating and managing business analysis services.
- We came up with several areas for further investigation.
- We will progress and share these for review.
Information and cyber security skills and competencies...
- The detailed analysis work continues and the draft documents are available for review and comment.
- We feel SFIA as a framework is well placed to support an enterprise-wide view of security-related skills and competencies.
- This aligns with industry-led moves to ensure that security is treated as a responsibility for everyone - not a siloed speciality.
Robotic process automation (RPA)...
- There is a lot of market information and use cases out there to investigate.
- The graphic below presents a broad view of automation.
- We can see the connected nature of many of themes we are looking at for SFIA 8 - big data, machine learning, RPA, business analysis, cloud computing.
(credit EMERGN)
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