# IT:PM:Team/Roles/Tech Lead #



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Depending on the company, the term Tech Lead and Team Lead are often used interchangeably. 

But if there is a distinction to be made, the Tech Lead's focus is on understanding the [[IT/AD/Documentation/SAD/]] and plotting a course avoiding obstacles in delivering it, whereas the Team Lead's focus is most stayed towards to keeping good communication between the Development Team with the Testers and Business Analysts.

A [[IT/PM/Roles/Tech Lead/]] is expected to provide technical leadership, leading the project's architecture, design, and development, and report issues to a Team Lead, Project Lead, Project Manager.

Team Leads focus on production, using technologies chosen by the client and/or CTO.


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## Notes ##

Often picked from [[IT/PM/Team/Roles/Senior Developer/]]s who show an strong technical ability, as well as ability to orchestrate the interactions between [[IT/PM/Team/Roles/Business Analyst/]]'s, [[IT/PM/Team/Roles/Tester/]]s.


## Responsibilities ##

* Understand the [[IT/AD/Documentation/SAD|SAD]] and [[IT/AD/Documentation/TDD|TDD]] documents, and communicate that to the [[IT/PM/Team/Roles/Senior Developer|Senior Developer]]s.
* Define the Tasks required to achieve the functionality defined in the [[IT/AD/Documentation/SAD|SAD]], [[IT/AD/Documentation/BRD|BRD]],[[IT/AD/Documentation/FRD|FRD]], [[IT/AD/Documentation/NFRD|NFRD]].
* Allocate Tasks to the Senior Developers.
    * It is important that the Tech Lead keep control of the delegation of development tasks, and not let a Project Manager allocate them to developers directly.
* Communicate the impact of issues to expected timelines to the Project Manager and other stake holders.