The SFIA design principles were established in The Task Dictionary is intended to be used and 2000 and are regularly revised to ensure they applied by companies and organizations in remain relevant. These design principles have order to determine tasks in line with business enabled SFIA to resist following latest trends, strategies or business plans, and therefore, the and to focus on transferrable skills, allowing Task Dictionary is used widely in Industry. experience to be valued and individuals to The Dictionary, however, is used by maintain relevance in the work place. academic organizations such as IT departments One design principle, for instance, Method and in universities and IT engineer education Technology Independence, means that a schools to setup their syllabuses or curriculums. particular method or technology is not the Tasks and skills are connected so skills to driver, rather the skill is the driver; and enhance tasks can be identified in industry, and programming, for example, is the skill, Java or students can identify tasks using acquired skills. C++ is the technology, and while the language in The IPA is responsible for the IT Engineer this case may be relevant to a particular job, the Examination (ITEE) and the iCD provides the link skill is, nevertheless, programming. This is an between each ITEE examination and required important point as while the industry moves skills and levels. rapidly and new methods or technologies appear frequently, many skills persist throughout and SFIA recognizes this. The SFIA Framework is updated by a process of Since the first version was released in 2015, the open consultation involving the whole iCD update has been reviewed annually. This anyone can raise a request for change and annual update process is planned to continue. these are reviewed against the SFIA design Update consideration points include: principles and progressed accordingly by the voices/opinions of or stakeholders Design Authority. New or updated content is IT trends captured through various drafted by the volunteer user community and collaborations reviewed. Then the draft of the whole consistency between the ITEE updates and framework is assembled and reviewed again for the iCD consistency across skills and against design to recognized global standards and principles, translated and published by the BOKs Design Authority. Updates occur every 2-3 years leading to the The Japanese version is updated annually; the publication of new version (SFIA version 7 English version is updated annually and publication due mid-2018) published one year later than the original Japanese.
The SFIA design principles were established in 2000 and are regularly revised to ensure they remain relevant. These design principles have enabled SFIA to resist following latest trends, and to focus on transferrable skills, allowing experience to be valued and individuals to maintain relevance in the work place. One design principle, for instance, Method and Technology Independence, means that a particular method or technology is not the driver, rather the skill is the driver; and programming, for example, is the skill, Java or C++ is the technology, and while the language in this case may be relevant to a particular job, the skill is, nevertheless, programming. This is an important point as while the industry moves rapidly and new methods or technologies appear frequently, many skills persist throughout and SFIA recognizes this. The Task Dictionary is intended to be used and applied by companies and organizations in order to determine tasks in line with business strategies or business plans, and therefore, the Task Dictionary is used widely in Industry. The Dictionary, however, is used by academic organizations such as IT departments in universities and IT engineer education schools to setup their syllabuses or curriculums. Tasks and skills are connected so skills to enhance tasks can be identified in industry, and students can identify tasks using acquired skills. The IPA is responsible for the IT Engineer Examination (ITEE) and the iCD provides the link between each ITEE examination and required skills and levels. The SFIA Framework is updated by a process of open consultation involving the whole anyone can raise a request for change and these are reviewed against the SFIA design principles and progressed accordingly by the Design Authority. New or updated content is drafted by the volunteer user community and reviewed. Then the draft of the whole framework is assembled and reviewed again for consistency across skills and against design principles, translated and published by the Design Authority. Since the first version was released in 2015, the iCD update has been reviewed annually. This annual update process is planned to continue. Update consideration points include: voices/opinions of or stakeholders IT trends captured through various collaborations consistency between the ITEE updates and the iCD to recognized global standards and BOKs Updates occur every 2-3 years leading to the publication of new version (SFIA version 7 publication due mid-2018) The Japanese version is updated annually; the English version is updated annually and published one year later than the original Japanese.
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