What kind of roles are required in a SAP Portal project in general?


When a company would like to start a portal project, there will usually have the persons to take responsibility on the following roles (one person can have more than one role)

1) Project Manager
Role description in brief: Manage and monitor the whole project in term of business requirement, design, analysis, implementation and team leadership.
2) Business Analyst
Help in outlining and developing the business requirement of the project. Comunicate with business owner, users and content manager to gather business data required by the project.
3) Technical Project Lead
Lead the technical team (solution architect, developers, system administrator) in technical design and implemenatation.
4) Solution Achitect
Layout the overall portal architecture design for the project implementation. Configuring hardware (i.e. server), portal installation and other portal infrastruture.
5) System Administrator / Portal Basis Administrator + Security Administrator
After portal installation, responsible for standard setup and configurations within the portal. His/her responsibilities included security settings, backend connectivity, content migration and other user management tasks(i.e. setting up LDAP server for user management engine).
6) Several Portal Developers
Developers are the person actually develop the custom portal applications that cannot be configured through standard portal configurations. There are different sub-roles in development: content development, connectivity with backend system, Knowledge Management & Collaboration, or Business Intelligence and etc.
7) Content Manager
Manage and intergrate content that built by developers and take care portal overall look- and-feel. Tasks included configuring page layouts, iviews, roles, worksets, navigations and etc.

I will cover their specific tasks in detail in the future (especially developer's tasks).