Turning business problems into data design

Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:design data architecture by dealing with specific business problems and aligning it to enterprise-wide standards and principleswork within the context of well understood architecture, and identify appropriate patterns Practitioner You can:design data architecture that deals with problems spanning different business areasidentify links … Read more

Strategic Thinking

Strategy involves creating a plan to achieve a team or organisation’s objectives. Skill level Description Awareness You can:explain the strategic context of your work and why it is importantsupport strategic planning in an administrative capacity Working You can:work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goalscontribute to the development of strategy and … Read more

Data standards

Data standards involve established practices to make it easier and more effective to share and use data across government. Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:develop data standards for a specific componentanalyse where data standards have been applied or breached, and undertake an impact analysis of that breach … Read more

Data governance

Data governance involves the set of standards, processes and policies that ensures your data is consistent and reliable throughout the data life cycle. Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:understand what data governance is requiredtake responsibility for the assurance of data solutions and make recommendations to ensure compliance … Read more

Understanding product delivery

Product delivery involves ensuring that a product or service is developed in a timely and cost-effective way, meeting the user needs. Skill level Description Awareness You can:manage your contribution to tasks to fit in with the work of your wider team Working You can:show an awareness of the differences between delivery methods, such as Agile … Read more

Data regulation and ethics

Data protection and ethics involves understanding the ethical and legal obligations of storing and protecting business critical information, and encouraging responsible data use. Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:apply relevant data and ethical frameworks and standards to your workunderstand all aspects of data governance and use, ensuring … Read more

Data engineering and manipulation

Data engineering involves ensuring the correct systems are available to enable the collection, analysis and extrapolation of data. Skill level Description Awareness You can:show an awareness of the need for engineering support to design and deliver products into the organisationappreciate the need to cleanse and prepare data before including it in data science products and … Read more

Data Wrangling Steps

Each data project requires a unique approach to ensure its final dataset is reliable and accessible. That being said, several processes typically inform the approach. These are commonly referred to as data wrangling steps or activities. 1. Discovery Discovery refers to the process of familiarizing yourself with data so you can conceptualize how you might use … Read more

Agile and Lean practices

Agile delivery involves encouraging teams to build incrementally, test and iterate their work based on regular feedback and other useful data. Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:demonstrate experience in applying Agile principles in practiceprovide a clear, open and transparent framework in which teams can delivershow an awareness … Read more

Project management

Project management involves understanding the life cycle of a project to achieve its objectives within the agreed parameters. Skill level Description Awareness You can:show an awareness of project management techniques, and an appreciation of how they are applied in the environment Working You can:apply your knowledge and experience of project management methodologies, including tools and … Read more