Roles

The following roles are defined in the context of the Track+ system :

$ORIGINATOR

the originator of a problem report or change request. This can be basically any person in the company. Customers are represented by one person in Product Management and one person in System Proving.

$CCB

the change control board. It assembles on a regular basis and decides which changes have to be executed. During development and prior to integration, the CCB may be represented by an $EXECUTOR or the $PM.

$CM

the person responsible for configuration management in the project. It decides on versioning issues and proper archiving of published versions.

$PM

the project manager

$TESTER

the tester of a resolved change request. It ultimately decides if the change request solution is accepted.

$INTEGRATOR

the person that integrates subsystems or modules that have been changed and generates a single, testable release

$EXECUTOR

the person that executes the change request. It receives the change order by the $CCB.

$MANAGER

the owner of a submitted issue. Typically, this will be the $PM or the $ORIGINATOR, or some person responsible for a sub system.

$RESPONSIBLE

the person responsible for carrying out actions related to this issue. $RESPONSIBLE for example should take care that a fix is implemented in case of a bug report.