All Project Members Should Be Treated Equal!
Neal Whitten, PMP
PM Network 19 (November 1999)
What if a project is made up of client personnel, vendors, and contractors, in addition to the company’s personnel? How should the project manager relate to each of these diverse groups?
This is a common problem on many projects; yet the answer is simple: Once people are assigned to a project, regardless of where they hail from, they must all be treated the same. No exceptions!
Figure 1 shows a project that consists of all of these groups. For the purpose of illustration, each team is led by a team leader and is made up of a different group of project members: client personnel, vendor personnel, contractors, and company personnel. Note that, although ...
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