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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