The producer's responsibilities are often also those of project manager. If there is a separate project manager, then that person deals with more the fine detail and day-to-day running problems and administrative planning details that occur, assisting the producer and taking responsibility for the drafting of plans.
A project producer needs to have powerful skills of presentation and persuasion, a good communicator, presentable, able to liaise easily with clients from all sectors.
The CD-I Production Handbook describes the CD-I producer (or project manager) as "a jack of all trades-someone whose knowledge has to encompass a variety of areas, from sound-recording to software engineering, and from animation to video techniques, with project management and public-relations skills thrown in for good measure." (Philips IMS, 1992, p.4.)
As for the team leader, depending on the scale of the organisation and team-member experience, that might be a director, producer, or interactive designer. (Philips IMS, 1992, p.21)
Preston describes the need for talented and adventurous people with backgrounds in film, TV or corporate video, and book publishing. (Preston, J., ed., 1991, pp.55-56)
Philips IMS (1992), The CD-I production Handbook, Wokingham England
Preston, J., ed. (1991), Compact Disc-Interactive: A Designer's Overview (Deventer, The Netherlands, 2nd edn.)