Project Roles

Enterprise Architect is a powerful multi-disciplinary modeling platform that supports common work practices and provides features to assist the entire spectrum of roles and disciplines across enterprise, business, engineering and software projects. Each role will typically use different features of the tool. A number of the roles and their responsibilities that the system supports are outlined here.

You can review a summary of the typical tasks supported for each role, or click on the appropriate role title to explore how Enterprise Architect can assist you in carrying out that role within a model-driven project.

Roles and Responsibilities

Role	Responsibilities	See also
Business Analyst	Create high-level models of business processes.	Business Analyst
Software Architect	Map functional requirements, perform real time modeling of objects, design the Deployment model and detail the deliverable components.	Software Architect
Software Engineer	Map Use Cases onto Class diagrams, detail the interactions between Classes, define the system deployment and define software Packages.	Software Engineer
Developer	Perform round trip code engineering, including reverse engineering of existing code and generation of code from Class elements.	Developer
Project Manager	Assign resources to elements, measure risk and effort, estimate project sizes, and manage element status, change control and maintenance.	Project Manager
Tester	Create test scripts against elements in the modeling environment.	Tester
Implementation Manager	Track and assign maintenance-related items to elements within Enterprise Architect Rapidly capture and keep records of maintenance tasks such as issues, changes, defects and tasks Trace the maintenance of the items and processes involved in system deployment	Implementation Manager
Technology Developer	Create customized additions to the functionality already present within Enterprise Architect.	Technology Developer
Database Developer	Develop databases, including modeling database structures, importing database structures from an existing database and generating DDL for rapidly creating databases from a model.	Database Developer

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Summary of Typical Tasks