This role leads planning the product's transition to the user community, ensuring those plans are enacted appropriately, managing issues and monitoring progress.
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.