Project team-Roles

[#1]

Hi SAP gurus,

Can u please tell me roles of the each of the persons in project implementation.

1.Program manager

2.Project manager

3.Project leader

4.Team leader (and how many team leaders will be there in a project)

5.Senior consultant

6.Associate consultant.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The job roles slightly differ from project to project and compnay to company based on their requirements.

But most common job roles are as follows

1.Project manager :

Project Manager is the person who takes care of the entire project. In coordination with Business Development team, the project manager will propose the no. of resources required, time lines and they fix the cost invoved in the project. And negotiate with the client based on these. Once the project is finalised, then a P.O can be raised from client. once after getting the PO project manager will pool up the requred resources (if they dont have a pre list) then start the work. He will be responsible for all the deliverables. If any thing goes wrong or any time lines are missed then project manager will be responsible for entire project.

2.Project leader

Project Leader and Project Manager are mostly one and same. As I said its dependent on compnay. Some compnaies will call it as Project Leader or Project Manager.So, the roles are almost same.

3.Team leader (and how many team leaders will be there in a project)

As the no. of resources are finalised for each module like FICO, SD, MM, PP (its purely based on the project) then one consultant (normally senior) will be come Team Leader, who will take care of his team members. Normally if the Project is big, then there will be individual Team Leaders of each module (like one for SD, ABAP, FICO, MM, etc). He will coordinate with his team members and will work accordingley to give the deliverables with in the stipulated time lines. He will report to the Project Leader or Project Manager.

54Senior consultant &Associate consultant.

Senior consultants and Associate Consultants are nothing but the consultants who will be working in the Project. Like SD, MM, FICO consultants. They will be incoordination with the Client and responsible for individual deliverables or assigned tasks within the stipulated time. These will report to Team Leader and Project Managers. These poeple normally will do configartaions or customizings, which ever is requred for the project. Senior and Associates are the just designations based on their experiance in that field.

And the Team Size is purely dependent on the Project. Its not mandatory that each project has these many members. If the project is small then the team size will be small and if the projcet is big then the team size will be big. Normally for implementation project the team size will be around 15.

Hope this is clear.

Reward if helpful

Thanks

Praveen