Development Roles

The development project team is typically led by a custom solution consultant and staffed by one or more application developers. The custom solution consultant resolves business issues by developing applications. Primary responsibilities include developing a data migration strategy, designing interfaces to legacy and third-party systems, and designing custom modifications with upgrades in mind. The application developers migrate legacy data, code and test interfaces, code and test custom modifications, and integrate all code changes into the ERP solution.

While the change management administrator performs the version control functions that control the acceptance, promotion, and deployment of software changes, the custom solution consultant must help develop the internal procedures for realizing an application development life cycle within your business. In addition, development team members must be aware of change management tools and procedures, as well as how the technology components affect the design and operation of interfaces and custom modifications.