Business Optimization
Business processes strive for three things: efficiency, agility, and meeting customer demands. While efficiency seeks to cut operating and cost of capital, agility seeks to cut the time required to develop products and services, and to respond to customer and market demands. Customer demands focus on customer retention and level of satisfaction.
Project Manager
A Project Manager is instrumental in the planning, scheduling, and management of IT and IT-related projects. Individuals in this role must possess both a high level of technical expertise and the capabilities required for all project managers, including excellent organization, leadership, and communication skills.
Common Titles: Technical Project Manager, SDLC Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Implementation Project Manager, Infrastructure Project Manager, IT Project Manager, Technical Project Manager
Business Analyst
Business Analysts help guide businesses in improving processes, products, services and software by gathering requirements from the business team and translating these requirements to the software development team. These agile workers straddle the line between IT and the business to help bridge the gap and improve efficiency.
Common Titles: BA, Business Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst
Product Owner
The Product Owner is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team. They “own” a particular product.
Common Titles: Product Owner, Senior Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, PO
UI/UX
A UX designer ensures a product makes sense to the user by creating a path that logically flows from one step to the next. A UI designer ensures each page visually communicates that path. UX and UI design are two different elements of a single consumer experience. UX refers to the user experience, which focuses on how something works and how people interact with it. UI, or user interface, focuses on the look and layout.
Common Titles: UX/UI Developer, UX Designer, UI Designer, Product Designer, UX Researcher