January 2021 - 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, 45 secs.

First of all - many thanks to all who have contributed to SFIA 8 so far - it's a community effort and all your help is much appreciated.

We need a change log to manage the planned scope of SFIA 8
For previous SFIA updates - the change log was published as "release notes" to communicate where changes had been made.
For SFIA 8 - we are experimenting with making the change log visible earlier in the development and implementation phase
This allows early identification of additional changes, interdependencies, omissions, questions.
Please take some time to browse the log and bookmark the page for future reference.
All comments are welcome.

The IIBA UK has collaborated with SFIA to produce draft mappings of the six knowledge areas of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge to relevant skills within the SFIA Framework.
The draft, beta mappings can be seen here
To present this draft and seek feedback the IIBA UK are holding a Webinar on Monday 15th February . You are welcome to join the webinar to give your thoughts on the mappings and join the discussion.

We have been reviewing the use of examples and guidance for individual skills
A prototype has been developed to include an additional field in the SFIA skills definition - to be called Guidance notes.
This field will appear alongside selected SFIA skills - where feedback tells us that users benefit from additional guidance.
Sample SFIA 8 pages with guidance notes can be seen here...
This page has further background on this proposal.
Please read the page - especially if you use the SFIA Excel spreadsheet to populate tools or documents.

Investigations into this theme have progressed - we now have 3 change requests related to people management skills in SFIA

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

SFIA Updates Manager & SFIA 8 Project Manager