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going further together Building and Effective IT Profession Charles Hughes President British Computer Society IFIP Workshop 25 August 2006
going further together
Building and Effective IT Profession
Charles Hughes
President
British Computer Society
IFIP Workshop
25 August 2006
PROFESSIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Specialist Disciplines
Body of Knowledge
Skills & CompetenceFramework
Qualifications Framework
Admission Processes
CPD Process
Disciplinary & Support
Processes
DevelopmentServices
Governance StructureScope
Ethical &Behavioural
Skills
Competence
CPD
IT PROFESSION INFRASTRUCTURE
GOVERNANCE & ADMINISTRATION
REQUIRED STANDARDS
Academic
IT STUDENTS & TRAINEES
QUALIFIED IT PROFESSIONALS
CHARTERED
IT PROFESSIONALS
BUILDING THE FULLY EFFECTIVE IT PROFESSION
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Skills and Career Management
SFIA (The Skills Framework for the Information Age)UK Government-backed standard Details the skills needed by IT professionals.Simple and logical two-dimensional framework Easily accessible to practitioners employers and users
.SFIAplus™
SFIA framework plus an extra level of granularityProvides detailed performance standards for the training and development of IT professionals.
Enables clear skills benchmarking of both individuals and jobs
.
Skills Frameworks
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IT Skills Framework
Career support for practitioners
BCS CareerBuilder
Built around the SFIAplus skills framework
Enables individuals to: • Review IT skills against the industry standard • Create a personal job description from recognized roles • Set up cycles of training and development • Identify objectives and actions in line with career development
plans • Pinpoint resources assist with achieving development plans
Development support for Employers
Development support for Employers
Browser based solution for employers to produce IT job descriptions
•Browse SFIAPlus•Prepare and maintain a job description using SFIAplus standard•Define skills, training and experience•Quickly prepare IT job descriptions •Customize job descriptions • Identify career paths•Establish training requirements -
BCS IT Job Describer
Development support for Employers
Enables employers to identify and manage skills across teams anddepartments
•Measure people skills against SFIAplus• Create Corporate Job Descriptions• Build Job Descriptions from SFIAPlus and bespoke components• Analyse people skills against organisation need and SFIAplus• Carry out gap analysis
BCS Skills Manager
BCS Career Developer
Generate corporate job descriptions
Select project teams/identify
experts
Performgap
analysis
Assessmentand
confirmation
Set uporganisation
structure
Explore SFIAplus
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Qualifications and Training
BCS – The World’s leading IT Examination Institute
BCS Professional Exams
CertificateComparable to Year 1 HND, 3 modules – 2 hour written exam, 140 hours per module
Diploma
Examined to HND level, 1 compulsory + 3 optional modules – 2 hour written exam each, 140 hours per module
GraduateDiploma
Examined to degree level, 4 optional modules - 3 hour written paper each, 200 hours per module
ISEB Qualifications
The recognised brand leader for relevant, professional IS/IT qualifications
• recognised and valued by employers, IT & business managers, IT staff, IT industry and academia
• international reach in major markets – delivered in 67 countries worldwide, including USA, Australia, India, Europe
• training & exams available to anyone, anywhere• valued strategic partnerships with key organisations (ITSMF,
ISTQB, APM etc)• continued high quality approach to examination and service
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ISEB Project Mgt Professional
ISEB Systems Development Professional
ISEB Software Testing
Professional
FoundationIn Systems
Development(coming soon) Foundation
in SoftwareTesting
Foundation in IT enabledBusinessChange(coming soon)
Foundationin
IT Law Certificate in Information
Security Management
Principles
Foundation In IS
ProjectManagement
Foundation inIT Service
Management
Foundation inIT Assets andInfrastructure (coming soon)
Systems Development Diploma
Data M
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Man
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Busine
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ISEB Project Support
Professional
ISEB Business Analysis
Professional
ISEB IT Legal Professional
ISEB Service Management Professional
ISEB IT Infrastructure Professional
Data Protection
Freedom of Information
Evaluating & Procuring Software Packages
IT S
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IT S
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IT S
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Data M
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Applica
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Software
Ass
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Essen
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ITIL Inf
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Mgt
Inform
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Techn
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IT Architecture
Systems Development Essentials
Systems Modelling Techniques
PPSO
Advanced
PPSO
Essentials
Busine
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Modell
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Proc
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Busine
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Essen
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Requir
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Organis
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IS Con
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Management & Business Change
Legal, Compliance & Security
IT Infrastructure, Assets and Services
Solution Development & Delivery
Higher level
Foundation level
Practitioner level
‘Professional’ level
Software Testing Practitioner
System Design Techniques
Estimating for S
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Developm
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Qualifications in Development
Chartered IT Professional
‘Gold Standard’ status for the IT professional
Based on clearly defined standards of competence and conduct
Subject to rigorous admission requirements
And to clearly defined CPD obligations
Available to suitably qualified BCS members
Will be available for other organisations to award, under licence, from 2007
Specialist Disciplines
Body of Knowledge
Qualifications Framework
Admission Processes
CPD Process
Disciplinary & Support
Processes
DevelopmentServices
Governance StructureScope
Competence
CPD
Organisation Professionalism
Business Leadership
Government Support
Awareness & Recognition
User & Customer Competence
IT PROFESSION INFRASTRUCTURE
GOVERNANCE & ADMINISTRATION
REQUIRED STANDARDS
BUSINESS CONTEXT
IT STUDENTS & TRAINEES
QUALIFIED IT PROFESSIONALS
CHARTERED
IT PROFESSIONALS
BUILDING THE FULLY EFFECTIVE IT PROFESSION
Skills & CompetenceFramework
Ethical &Behavioural
Skills
Academic
Organisational professionalism
Each organisation: a bridge in the supply chainEach bridge relies on the seven piers of organisational professionalism
The supply chain
© Intellect
integrity
processes
people
communications
relationships
learning
citizenshipintegrity
processes
people
communications
relationships
learning
citizenship
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Building and Effective IT Profession
Charles Hughes
President
British Computer Society
IFIP Workshop
25 August 2006
