Organization of the alliance team

In the project alliance, the client and the realization partners, i.e. the planners and the executing contractors, work together as an integrated team rather than individually. Accordingly, and because the alliance partners make the decisions in the project together and bear joint responsibility, the management structures of the alliance and the project must be designed in an integrated manner.

All internal alliance decisions are usually made at the following management levels (figure):

• Alliance steering team (strategic management)
• Alliance management team (operational management, executive management)
• Alliance project team (operational implementation)

The number of decision-making bodies must be adapted to the scope and complexity of the project and can therefore be reduced.

Each alliance partner commits itself to contributing the necessary personnel resources for all three management levels of the project alliance.

To ensure that the close cooperation within the alliance can work well, the alliance project team should work in common premises that optimally facilitate teamwork.