Technical design throughout the life cycle

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• explain the purpose of creating a technical design that describes a solution
• explain the decisions in an existing technical design

2. Working

You can:

• create technical designs characterised by managed levels of risk, impact, and complexity
• provide guidance and support to teams using technical designs throughout the life cycle
• adapt a technical design if needed during delivery
• work with well-understood technology and identify appropriate patterns

3. Practitioner

You can:

• create technical designs characterised by medium risk, impact, and complexity
• maintain appropriate quality and architectural coherence of a technical design in response to change
• use feedback to optimise and refine technical designs throughout the life cycle

4. Expert

You can:

• create technical designs characterised by high risk, impact, and complexity
• lead and guide others in creating technical designs that achieve organisational objectives
• use feedback to optimise and refine standards for technical designs throughout the life cycle

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• define software architecture (close match)
• systems development life-cycle (narrow match)
• define technical requirements (narrow match)

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