How SFIA works

SKILLS, CATEGORIES AND SUBCATEGORIES

Skills: SFIA defines 86 professional skills that are relevant to IT Professionals in various roles. These skills are mapped across seven levels of responsibility. Their focus is on the long-lasting skills needed by practitioners, not on technological knowledge which has a rapid turnover.

Each skill has a name, such as Business process testing, and a code, such as BPTS.

Categories and subcategories: For the convenience of the reader, SFIA’s skills are presented in six Categories and Subcategories that are fairly well understood areas of work in IT. SFIA is not seeking to define those categories, and it is possible that they might be altered in the future. The six categories put skills into their business context:

• Strategy & architecture
• Business change
• Solution development & implementation
• Service management
• Procurement & management support
• Client interface