[ianpri]

Some of this is awfully bad advice - why is it useful to work directly with multiple designers/developers rather than a single point of contact/project manager? isn't this pushing the project management onto the clients side?

As a developer do I really want the client being able to dominate all my time when I have multiple projects on the go at the same time?

[peterjmag]

Exactly. At one of my previous companies, every time a client was allowed to bypass my project manager, it ended up doubling my workload and cutting in significantly to my development time.

Even worse, some clients would try to get me to agree to things (e.g. "minor tweaks" at no additional cost) that really weren't up to me to decide, sometimes after the project manager already told them no. It always put me in an awkward position, making it even harder to get my actual work done.