At the very onset of a given project, one of the most important tasks tat befalls the project management team and or the project management team leader is to do a careful analysis of exactly what the project is going to entail from a personnel standpoint, how many people they will have to assign to the project, and as a result of the answers to each of those questions, what role they will assign to each individual team member,. Specifically speaking, roles refer to the particular defined function that is assigned by the project management team and orthe project management team leader to an individual project team member that they are to specifically undertake. This particular role can be in any number of areas associated with the project, such as day to day activities, conducting specific tests, conducting an completing filing, conducting and or performing inspections, and doing some sort of coding function,.
This term is defined in the 3rd and the 4th edition of the PMBOK.