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Prototyping

Prototyping a service or product involves exploring, testing and sharing different concepts before committing to the final design.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • explain what prototyping is, and why and when to use it
  • understand how to work in an open and collaborative environment (by pair working, for example)
2. Working

You can:

  • understand when to use a specific prototyping technique or method
  • show the value of prototyping to your team
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others
  • establish design patterns and iterate them
  • use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
4. Expert

You can:

  • use a variety of prototyping methods
  • share best practice and coach others
  • look at strategic service design end to end

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Apprentice DevOps engineerDevOps engineer4Awareness
Junior DevOps engineerDevOps engineer5Working
DevOps engineerDevOps engineer6Practitioner
Senior DevOps engineerDevOps engineer7Practitioner
Lead DevOps engineerDevOps engineer8bPractitioner
Principal DevOps engineerDevOps engineer8cExpert
Apprentice frontend developerFrontend developer4Awareness
Junior frontend developerFrontend developer5Working
Frontend developerFrontend developer6Practitioner
Senior frontend developerFrontend developer7Practitioner
Lead frontend developerFrontend developer8bPractitioner
Head of frontend developmentFrontend developer8cExpert
Apprentice software developerSoftware developer4Awareness
Junior software developerSoftware developer5Working
Software developerSoftware developer6Practitioner
Senior software developerSoftware developer7Practitioner
Lead software developerSoftware developer8aPractitioner
Principal software developerSoftware developer8bExpert