Role: Process Engineer

This role equips the project team with an appropriate development process, and makes sure that the team members are not hindered in doing their jobs.

Relationships

Performs: Deploy the Process Tailor the Process	Responsible for: Project Defined Process
Additionally Performs:	Modifies: Project Defined Process

Main Description

This role plays an important part of any management team of a software project. The role is responsible for all process related aspects of the project, such as :

Tailoring the process to match the specific needs of the project
Educating and mentoring project members on process related issues.
Ensuring that valuable project experience is harvested and fed back into the process.

Properties

Multiple Occurrences
Optional
Planned

Staffing

Skills

It is important for a person playing this role to have an in-depth understanding of the underlying process definition and available tools to be able to make informed choices for tailoring. Ideally, a person playing this role should have had multiple experiences working on software projects, and should understand the various considerations to be made when tailoring processes.

Assignment Approaches

Individuals filling this role are often part of a process group that defines organizational configurations and act as process mentors on projects.

It is common practice for organizations undergoing a process transformation to look for resources outside the company for filling this role for the initial pilot projects.