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Anna Orlowska Program Manager, PMO| City of Guelph Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
I am looking for insights specific to project delivery on Co-PM type shared leadership. From your experience what are the pros and cons? Can this become an effective approach or not?
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Peter Rapin Subject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent Consultant Ontario, Canada
Too many cooks spoil the broth. In this case two PMs sink the project. Some will argue that having two, or more, leaders who think the same with similar experiences is ideal - but why have two if one will do?

It is not so much about the titles (PM), its about roles and responsibilities - that's why cars have only one steering wheel although the driver and passenger may be equals.
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May 04, 2022 11:38 AM
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In our parent company, we almost always have a Project Manager and one or more Project Engineers. Many times the PE can jump into the PM role if necessary, but typically never the other way around (unless both are the same person). ProjectContexts encourages distributed project management, essentially allowing several PM's. But as Peter would agree, only one is the uber-project manager. It's a bit as a top restaurant's chef and sous-chefs (and the broth never gets spoiled). The restaurant is known for the chef, but without the sous-chefs the chef would not have a name.
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Roland Vander Straeten CEO| ProjectContexts Inc Guelph, Ontario, Canada
May 04, 2022 9:59 AM
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. In this case two PMs sink the project. Some will argue that having two, or more, leaders who think the same with similar experiences is ideal - but why have two if one will do?

It is not so much about the titles (PM), its about roles and responsibilities - that's why cars have only one steering wheel although the driver and passenger may be equals.
In our parent company, we almost always have a Project Manager and one or more Project Engineers. Many times the PE can jump into the PM role if necessary, but typically never the other way around (unless both are the same person). ProjectContexts encourages distributed project management, essentially allowing several PM's. But as Peter would agree, only one is the uber-project manager. It's a bit as a top restaurant's chef and sous-chefs (and the broth never gets spoiled). The restaurant is known for the chef, but without the sous-chefs the chef would not have a name.
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Thomas Walenta Global Project Economy Expert Hackenheim, Germany
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