Roles and Responsibilities

Purpose

This document is for capturing who is responsible for what within the delivery team.

Delivery Manager

• Has overall responsibility for delivery against the challenge objectives and is the main point of contact for the ECMWF
• Is responsible for ensuring that the requirements are well understood and that the team is focussed on the most valuable work
• Has an eye on the flow of work, helping the team to overcome obstacles as they occur
• Encourages and facilitates continuous improvement of the delivery team
• Manages risks and issues
• Resolves conflict
• Chairs the weekly review meeting with the mentors
• Reports progress to interested parties
• Responsible for internal project administration
• Responsible for the documentation that is produced and the final handover to the ECMWF

Lead Developer

• Has overall technical responsibility for the solutions delivered by the team, ensuring that they meet the needs of the ECMWF
• Has overall responsibility for the testing activities
• Manages the day to day team activities, which includes running the following meetings:
  • The daily stand-up
  • Backlog refinement
  • Retrospectives
• Champions good coding practices and quality code
• Maintains the decision log
• Approves holiday requests

Climate Scientist

• Advises the team on how to process scientific data
• Performs analysis of the data and presents that analysis to the team and the mentors, to support decision making with regard to the evolution of the vAirify product
• Also performs the role of Developer, with a specific focus on processing of scientific data and its display to the users

Developer

• Develops solutions to meet client needs, taking a pragmatic approach to deliver high quality, fit for purpose results
• Aspires to use the most appropriate tools, techniques and practices
• Designs and estimates items of work to inform planning and facilitate stakeholder decisions
• Collaborates with other team members, helping others to overcome challenges and suggesting improvements to team processes
• Ensures that the delivered software is supportable, by writing clean code, refactoring as appropriate, and producing supporting documentation

Test Engineer

Accountable for:

• Defining test approach and methods according to the project requirements
• Verifying product requirements are met
• Advising the team on product quality

Responsible for:

• Creating & executing test cases to cover basic capabilities of the product, reporting findings
• Creating test charters to cover areas of risk, executing them, and reporting findings
• Creating test cases for basic capabilities, and automate those necessary to repeat verify
• Raising bugs and re-testing them
• Verifying the testability of tickets in refinement
• All testing above unit testing