Roles or figures of a software project
Software architect.
Is the person who decides how the project will be developed. He has a thorough knowledge of technologies, frameworks, libraries, etc. He decides how many resources and how the project will be carried on by the team.
Project manager.
He commands the project. A lot of times he is an experienced analyst, a software architect or a special person dedicated to that post. He knows how to manage a team, manage times, he has a fluent relationship with the client, etc.
Systems analyst.
It’s a traditional role in the development of software. He is an experienced person who is in charge of doing the analysis and design of the whole sistem.
Experience is the most important quality of an analyst because he has to meet with the client, establish the project’s requisites, etc.
Analyst-programmer.
It’s a job in between an analyst and a programmer. It can be a senior programmer. He does part of the analyst job and he also programs. In tiny or medium projects he could do both functions (analyst and programmer).
Programmer.
He has to know the programming language in deep. He has to program all task received by an analyst or an analyst-programmer.
Clasify the next task and others selected from you into the differents roles described before.
Here you have some tasks:
You can also select the stage of the software developent of every task. You should create a table with three columns: task, stage and role.
