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Scope of Roles

This document describes the overall responsibilities of each role on a project team. For more detail on each role, please see their respective runbooks. Anyone participating in a project team has discretion to comment on any features including frontend and backend architecture and implementation, UI/UX designs, and any other internal discussions.  

Product Manager Tasks

  • Communication
    • Communication Channels 
      • Manage Discord project team channel 
      • Facilitate communication between NPOs and Project Team 
        • Via Email, Slack, Discord, at PMs discretion
      • Manage task organization software(Github Taskboard, Jira, etc...) 
  • Meetings
    • Organize and lead Project Team Meetings
      • Create agenda
        • Standup
        • Goals of meeting
        • Task delegation
        • Iterate feedback from NPO
    • Organize NPO Meetings
      • Feature/progress showcasereport 
      • Ask questions regarding:
        • Features
        • Timeline
        • Scope of Project
Features
  • Determine priority of features 
  • Write Masters feature issues/tasks
    • To be populate by Tech Leads 
  • Delegate tasks
Quality Assurance
  • Test Features for functionality
    • Write according bug/fix tasks that address necessary changes 
  • Approve UI/UX and designs
    • Test functionality of buttons, hyperlinks, embedded videos, etc.. 

Tech Lead Responsibilities

    Communication
      Attend Monthly NPO meetings 
        Walk though feature/progress reports Ask releveant technical questions Project Team Meetings
          Address any technical issues raised by devs Decide technical implementation of features/tass  Delegate tasks  Features
            Review, comment, and approve PRs Delegate tasks Complete assigned tasks

            Developer Responsibilities

              Communication
                Attend all project team meetings
                  Provide progress report on tasks Ask necessary questions Receive task assignments  Features
                    Complete assigned tasks Review, comment, and approve PRs 

                    Designer Responsibilities

                      Communcation
                        Attend all Project Team meetings
                        Attend necessary NPO meetings(summer, early fall)  Features
                          Complete UI/UX designs of project Complete task assignment
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