Building and sustaining a project community

You've been given a mandate to run a project, stakeholders have been chosen to meet the project's challenges, and you've put together a group of people (internal and external team members) to see it through. Forming a community around a set of rules enables you to share common values and, in particular, the interests of the project and its stakeholders. The quality of interpersonal relations is essential to the project's success.

These rules are set out in a project contract at the project kick-off meeting. The project manager is responsible for maintaining and developing these rules until the project is completed. This is an essential task of project management.

This sheet will help you manage your project team, from the launch phase right through to the final deliverables.