Role: Deployment Manager
This role leads planning the product's transition to the user community, ensuring those plans are enacted appropriately, managing issues and monitoring progress.
Relationships
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Main Description
Properties
Multiple Occurrences
Optional
PlannedYes
Staffing
Skills

A person playing the Deployment Manager role requires the following skills:

  • Experience in deploying systems.
  • Communication/Coordination in order to stay current with the status of the product development and communicate the needs of the deployment tasks to the rest of the organization.
  • Planning Ability in order to ensure that deployment can be performed on schedule and with the available resources.
  • Goal-orientation and Pro-activity in order to plan and drive the product to completion across the various teams. The Deployment Manager role has to focus on getting a quality product out the door.
Assignment Approaches

Here are some examples of different ways this role can be assigned:

  • To be effective, the Deployment Manager and the Project Manager roles must work closely together. As such,  these roles are often realized by a single person.

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