Software director vs software development manager

Differences between software director and software development manager duties and responsibilities

Software director example responsibilities.

• Manage staff of architects, analysts and UI design personnel.
• Lead configuration, and optimization of open source embed Linux distribution on the OMAP-L processor to achieve optimal boot performance.
• Hire and manage blended team, design and implement test lab leveraging existing infrastructure and execute application test plans.
• Extend department s bandwidth into new technologies, including cloud computing, compute continuum and data sharing and application software.
• Establish and maintain SQA testing laboratory, prepare acceptance, certification, regression, and Y2K test plans and product specifications.
• Perform browser compatibility testing and user acceptance testing (UAT )
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Software development manager example responsibilities.

• Plan and manage release schedules, upgrades and patches, maintenance windows.
• Justify, evaluate, hire, and manage offshore contractors to supplement staff for a large HTML form coding project.
• Manage workflow of projects through JIRA, ensuring that all necessary reviews are perform and projects are successfully release to production.
• Manage all phases of application design--from requirements gathering, coding and prototyping through system testing, integration and deployment.
• Manage many infrastructure upgrade projects nationwide.
• Manage resource allocation for Lawson ERP implementation project.
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