Orange – Business

Blue – facilitate process aspects of the Project

Green – Technical development

 

Business Sponsor: must hold a sufficiently high position

• Owns the Business Case
• Ensures ongoing viability of project in line with the Business Case
• Ensure funds & other resources are made available
• Ensure decision making process for escalated project issues is effective and rapid
• Responds rapidly to escalated issues

 

Business Visionary:

• Owns wider implications of any change from organisational perspective
• Defines the business vision for the project
• Communicates & promotes business vision
• Contributes to key requirements, design & review sessions
• Approves changes to high level requirements in the PRL (Prioritised Requirements List)
• Ensures collaboration across stakeholder business areas
• Ensures business resources are available as needed
• Promoting translation of business vision into working practice
• Acting as final arbiter of any disagreements between team members

 

Project Manager:

• Responsible for delivery of the solution
• Managing the working environment in which the solution is evolving
• Communicating with Senior Management with frequency & formality they deem necessary
• High level project planning & scheduling, but not detailed task planning
• Monitoring progress against the baselined project plans
• Managing risk & issues as they arise, escalating to senior business / technical roles as required
• Managing overall configuration of the project
• Motivating teams to meet their objectives
• Managing business involvement with SDTs
• Resourcing Specialist Roles as required
• Handling problems escalated from SDTs
• Coaching SDTs when handling difficult situations

• PM needs to protect SDT from Project Board to allow them to deliver within their Timebox; keep their velocity
• Needs to ensure that the SDT know their boundaries -> get on with their job
• Needs to clarify roles at start

 

Tech Coordinator: Design authority

• Agrees & control tech architecture
• Determine tech environments
• Advise on & co-ordinating each team’s technical activities
• Identifying & owning architectural & other technical based risk, escalating to Project Manager
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are achievable & met
• Ensuring adherence to appropriate standards of tech best practice
• Controlling technical configuration of the solution
• Managing technical aspects of the transition of solution into live use
• Resolving technical differences between technical team members

 

Solution Development Team: Empowered to make decisions on a d2d basis

• Team leader
  • Reports to Project Manager
  • Ensures SDT functions as a whole to meet its objectives
  • Plans & co-ordinates all aspects of product delivery at the detailed level
  • Leadership rather than a management role
  • Ideally elected by peers

 

• Business Ambassador
  • Provides business related info from those ultimately using the solution
  • Provides business perspective of solutions fitness for purpose
  • Guides the evolution of the solution
  • Responsible for day to day communication between the project and the business

 

• Business Analyst
  • Focuses on relationship between business & technical roles
  • Ensures accurate & decisive direction  to SDT on day to day basis
  • Ensures business needs are analysed & reflected in guidance team needs to generate solution

 

• Solution Developer
  • Interprets business requirements and translates them into deployable solution, that meets functional & non-functional needs
  • Ideally allocated full time
  • Otherwise first priority = risk

 

• Solution Tester
  • Performs testing in accordance with Tech Testing Strategy throughout project

 

• Business Advisor
  • Often a peer of ambassador
  • Provide specific & specialist input to solution development / testing
  • Normally will be an intended user or beneficiary of the solution

 

• Technical Advisor
  • Provides specific & specialist technical input:
    • Requirements, deign & review sessions
    • Operational perspective for day to day decisions
    • Operational or support scenarios to help define & test the solution
    • Assurance that the solution is evolving correctly
    • Operational acceptance testing
    • Development of support documentation
    • Training of operations & support staff

 

Workshop Facilitator

• Responsible for managing the workshop process
• Catalyst for preparation & communication
• Responsible for context of workshop, not content
• Should be independent of outcome to be achieved in workshop

 

DSDM Coach

• Helps team members get the most out of the approach
• Ideally certified as DSDM Coach, to ensure their competence has been independently validated