Project Management The Core Team Roles - 1823 Words

A project team can be made up of several roles that will be determined with project manager discretion as part of the project charter. The core team roles are: †¢ Business User – responsible for providing requirements, writing user stories, clarifying needs, testing software †¢ Project Manager – responsible for managing the project/environment/team, providing project status, and managing scope †¢ Business Analyst – (as needed and available) responsible for requirements, testing, design, and transition support †¢ Implementation Analyst – responsible for configuration and setup of package or SaaS systems as well as deployment activities that will ensure adoption. †¢ Programmer Analyst – responsible for requirements, producing usable†¦show more content†¦A prerequisite to this approval is a Project Charter to be completed and signed off by the Operating or Corporate Group Leader. The SDLC begins with a cross-functional kick off meeting where the scope of the project is defined, the majority of requirements are identified, and priorities are set regarding need and timing. The requirements are documented as user stories and may be optionally captured within the user story tracking software (JIRA). This tool can also be leveraged to collect any additional clarification of functional design requirements. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT – SPRINTING The design and development stage will vary depending on whether the system being deployed is primarily custom or packaged / SaaS. For systems that have a high degree of configuration and/or customer development the user stories are evaluated by the entire team for the level of complexity and effort that is required to complete each user story. For systems that are based on a package or implemented in a SaaS model, the configuration will be primarily based on best practices imbedded as part of the system. This initial prototype will then be iteratively changed with business involvement and guided by the user stories. The