Content Director

Definition

Content Director

the specialized content worker role that is played when a person orders the creation, acquisition, or migration of new draft content for one or more systems or applications

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Content Director is part of the following inheritance hierarchy.

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Content Worker
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities repsonsibilities of a Content Director are to:

• Determine the need for new content.
• Order new content.

Content Director typically inherits the general role responsibilities from the Role method component.

Personal Profile

To fulfill these responsibilities, a Content Director typically should have the following personal characteristics, expertise, training, and experience:

Personal Characteristics

A Content Director should typically have the following personal characteristics:

• TBD

Expertise

A Content Director typically should have the following expertise:

• Expert knowledge of content management.
• Good team leadership skills.
• Solid knowledge of the content-related aspects of the requirements and architectures.
• A bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or the equivalent.

Tasks

Content approvers typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Content Approval

Content approvers typically inherit common role tasks from the role process component.

Teams

Content approvers typically perform these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Content Management Team

Work Products

As members of these teams, content approvers typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Content Management Plan
• Data Components (Approved Content)

Guidelines

• A content approver is often someone from marketing or possibly management.
• This role is unnecessary if content management is not a requirement (e.g., there is no human interface or the human interface does not contain human produced content).
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles process component.