A research project is being conducted jointly between two universities and a collaboration company. The project is coordinated by a project manager from the company. You are the principal investigator at your institution and have a colleague in a corresponding position at the other institution. The funder has issued each institution with a separate research contract. You feel the project manager is pursuing their own agenda, is focused on hitting delivery dates without thinking for the quality of work being produced and has lost sight of expertise, your research group bring to the project. Furthermore, the post-docs in your research group and at the university are battling against each other and the project manager.