Dev Team Roles and Responsibilities [Video]

Building a software development team? Focus on the important dev team roles and responsibilities. These are as follows:

1. Project manager

A project manager (PM) leads a project in any industry, and that’s true for the software development industry too. Project managers work on initiating, defining, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing projects.

A PM has the following key responsibilities:

• Project kick-off;
• Decision-making about the project’s methodology;
• Leading a team to gather business requirements;
• Overseeing the documentation, review, approval, and change management of business requirements;
• Overseeing the effort to gather non-functional requirements (NFRs);
• Defining the project scope;
• Planning the project, including tasks, dependencies, schedule, and quality aspects;
• Creating plans for managing the technical environment, human resources, project risks, project budgets, issues, communications, software quality, etc.;
• Leading the development teams to execute the project;
• Coaching the team members;
• Monitoring the software development process and the project progress;
• Course correction if software projects deviate from the goals;
• Communicating with the relevant stakeholders;
• Resolving roadblocks with the support of senior management;
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