Project managers?
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Not really. The challenges are similar. You have a team of people who may not have worked together before, trying to produce a result/product, knowing that they will probably go their different ways once the project is over. The common risks that you would think of such as :
A key team member leaving
Conflict over roles and resp
Disagreement over intent and direction
Technical differences in approach
etc
are the same on most projects. It may be that people on an IT project team are more likely to be of a certain personality type, rather than on say a construction project, but you'd find teams of a similar nature in say engineering, and every team/person is different.
It depends on the kind of project resource you are comparing with.
Clearly, IT personnel are different to, say, construction enginnering staff...
A major difference being that it is a lot harder to switch a task to another person or team, part way through, since a lot of the development is inevitably done in the developer's head, and they are notorious for poor documentation... (That's why we have technical authors!)
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