What do you call someone who's involved in a project (non-leading role)
We currently have two roles for our project, namely:
- project manager
- `someone who is involved', ie. regular worker/employee
but I'm not really satisfied with worker. What do you usually call someone who works on a project within a team?
Solution 1:
You might consider Contributor if Team Member isn't working for you.
Solution 2:
A project would have:
- A Project Manager
- Fellow Members (or simply) 'Associates' (or) 'Fellows'
If you are against using 'team member' as a designation, I think the above terms should suffice as a clear, simple way to suggest hierarchy while denoting each person's interest in and commitment toward the project.
Other alternatives:
- Project Co-workers
- Project Peers
- Project Partners
- Collaborators
- Affiliates
These are all good terms to denote, as you say, a 'stakeholder's' position in a project.
If you wanted a more-casual, less-formal term, you could try coining one yourself (tailor-made for your particular project) and it should work just fine - Example: Project Mates
Solution 3:
It depends on the role of the members in the project.
- Use the same job titles, such as Developer, Artist, Quality Assurance if the team member is solely doing one job or one type of task in the project.
- Team member if the person doing it is not assigned a specific role.
- Current job titles with prefix 'Lead' - Lead Developer, Lead Artist, Lead Modeller, Lead Environment Artist, for supervisory roles one level below Project Manager.
Solution 4:
Team member is the term typically used in projectized organizations unless they have an elevated level of authority. See, for example, this page from the Project Management Institute.
