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Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle — IT Certificate

TOPIC 2: ORGANIZATIONAL ROLES

Project Roles

Key organizational project roles include:

Steering committee:
The decision-making body for the project.

Project Management Office (PMO): The coordinators and administrators of the project.

Project team: The people that provide day-to-day oversight of the project.

Functional teams: The subject matter experts (SMEs).

Steering Committee

The steering committee is composed of members of senior leadership and the information
technology and project management office (PMO). The primary functions of the committee include:

• Reviewing and approving the project charter.
• Reviewing current and projected budget.
• Reviewing and approving changes to the overall project scope.
• Meeting periodically to review project status.

Topics discussed at the status meeting include general status updates, current project delivery
dates, budget versus actual costs, major problems encountered and any new project risks, and the
manner in which risks are being controlled.

PMO and Project Teams

The PMO is composed of project managers. Normally, a project manager is assigned to a specific
project and is responsible for the day-to-day administrative activities of the project and project
team.

The project team is composed of the functional team leads and the PMO.

The primary functions of the project team include:
• Tracking and discussing the daily status of activities.
• Ensuring coordination among the functional leads.
• Providing periodic project status reports to the steering committee.
• Tracking of project schedule, costs, etc.
• Performing overall management of the project.
• Acting as the liaison between the project team and the steering committee.

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