Role: Team Lead
This role leads a group of people from a technical perspective.
Synonyms:

Component team lead. Feature team lead.

Role Sets: Portfolio ManagementProject Management
Relationships
Main Description

This role leads a defined group of people in achieving a specific objective, whether the activity is time-constrained (such as in a sub-project or task force) or continuous (as in operations).

This role does not have the same responsibilities nor authority of other roles, such as a line manager (who has budget responsibility and authority to hire or fire people) or project manager (who is accountable for the whole project success). Thus, this role's responsibilities typically focus on leading the technical aspects of the work.

Staffing
Synonyms

Component team lead. Feature team lead.

Key Considerations
In the context of portfolio management, this role participates in the decision of how to allocate resources supply to work on portfolio components demand.

The team lead for each feature team is typically a member of the project leadership team - that helps to enhance collaboration across the teams. This role also leads the the sub team (referred to as feature team) and has the following responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the feature team plans, iteration and release
  • Expected to know their domains and ensure that their deliverables are innovating in their space
  • Responsible for high quality deliverables
  • Triaging of feature team's inbox
  • Coordinates deliverables with other feature teams
  • Provides end of iteration demos