I was not part of a team that had a team member removed to work on another project completely. In my experience it usually isn’t a complete removal but the individual that is chosen to work on another project has to divide their time between their core responsibilities and the new project that they were selected to work on. This can cause problems in resources and can affect the person’s work if the workload becomes to much then the quality of work does decrease. The main downside to splitting the time up between different projects is that individual’s miss out on key meetings, such as weekly update meetings on where the project team is headed and rationales behind the changes being made on projects. This is because they are to busy working on another task. On the other hand, I have seen individual’s mainly in either rotational programs or co-ops be placed into projects for a short time and upper management requires them to participate in the project. This could result in a resource drainage rather than benefit because at times a lot of time is spent training and getting them up to speed on the organizational breakdown and where they fit into the system. However, after all the training and explanation they usually leave within a couple months and this is a frustrating aspect of the flip side of having someone forced onto a project team.