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Having the right people on a project team is certainly key to the suc-
cess of a project. In a large pharmaceutical company, the lead designer
walked o a very important project. Obviously, that set the team back
quite a bit, as no one else had enough experience to do what he did. Even
if the IT sta says put, there is still the possibility that a people issue will
negatively aect the project. For example,a change in senior management
might mean that the project you are working on gets canned or moved to
a lower priority. A project manager working for AOL Time Warner had
just started a