Practical guidance
Mapping learning to the SFIA Framework
The guidelines on this page are intended for learning providers and internal L&D specialists to associate learning products with specific SFIA skills.
Building SFIA-based role profiles
These guidelines are intended for organisations implementing a skills management framework using SFIA. SFIA-based role profiles capture the optimum skillset required in each organisational role and are the essential building blocks for skills management.
Where to start with SFIA skills profiling
This page helps you identify where you are starting from and points you to the guidance most relevant to your situation.
Getting started with SFIA skills profiling across teams
Once SFIA skills profiling moves beyond one team, the work changes. It is no longer just about building good profiles. It is about helping different teams apply the framework in a similar enough way that the profiles can be compared and used together
Using SFIA skills profiles in your team, function or professional area
This page shows how existing SFIA skills profiles can be used in day-to-day management and professional leadership within a defined local scope.
Exploring SFIA your way
SFIA contains a broad catalogue of professional skills covering many disciplines, industries and roles.
Introducing SFIA: early considerations
SFIA can help an organisation describe and talk about skills in a more consistent way. That sounds simple enough, but it is worth saying that SFIA is not the answer on its own. Organisations get most value when they treat it as a reference point for better conversations, not as something that will fix unclear roles or poor development practices by itself.