by Mario Moreira

What should title should we give a CM professional? There are various titles used such as CM Tool Administrators, Build Engineers, Release Engineers, Product Installers, and more. It may appear that these roles are somewhat similar. Upon closer inspection, there really are differences in the responsibilities and corresponding skills if you look at the context of the role.
What this article will attempt to do is identify the primary responsibilities of each CM role in the development to production part of the project lifecycle. Then it will look at the skills needed to handle those responsibilities and create a basic job description. If you are a hiring manager, this article can help you target the precise CM skills needed for the CM role(s) and help you create a job description. If you are a CM professional, this article can help you distinguish between the various CM roles and further identify the CM skills needed for certain CM roles. If you analyze the way companies across the world apply CM titles (a.k.a., CM roles), it becomes evident that there are no real standards. It fact, many companies use different CM titles to imply the same responsibility or the same title to imply very different responsibilities from one company to another (and a plethora of titles and responsibility differences in between).