Roles and Activities > Manager Role Set > Deployment Manager

Role:  Deployment Manager

The deployment manager role plans the product's transition to the user community and documents it in various associated documents.

Staffing

A deployment manager 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 activities 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 has to focus on getting a quality product out the door.  To be effective, the Deployment Manager and the Project Manager must work closely together.  Often these roles are realized by a single person.