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MAIN About SFIA Access the Framework Benefits of SFIA Who can use SFIA How SFIA works Accredited Partners Accredited Consultants SFIA as the IT Skills Standard Skills Update - newsletters SFIA Training The Foundation Feedback Conference 2008
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How SFIA worksSkills and CategoriesSkills: At the heart of the Framework are a set of skills - currently, 54 "practitioner" skills and 3 "user" skills - which together aim to describe all the abilities that are needed to deliver and exploit effective information systems. The skills relate both to the e-skills UK National Occupational Standards and to the BCS's SFIAplus which incorporates its Industry Structure Model. All the skills in SFIA are outlined in the SFIA Framework Categories publication. For further information on how to obtain this document, please go to Access the Framework. Categories and subcategories: For convenience, SFIA groups sets of skills into "subcategories" which may relate to job roles, and groups subcategories into five categories, which may relate to functions or departments in larger organisations. SFIA describes what people do, not necessarily what their jobs are called. As shown below, the five categories put skills into their business context.
Some areas cross the boundary between the "IS department" and the rest of the business. This is because, increasingly, the boundaries are hard to draw and in some organisations the distinction between IS specialists and "the business" is fading. Subcategories broadly align with the British Computer Society's Industry Structure Model. In many organisations, the SFIA subcategories align with job roles, and thus with what individuals do. The subcategory is a way of grouping work activities, sufficiently broad but self-contained to enable staff to be positioned within the overall framework. Some individuals will only carry out some of the activities within one subcategory, others may perform them all and some will work across more than one subcategory.
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