Project leadership increasingly does not reside in one place. Sponsors, Project Managers, Product Owners, teams, functional leaders and governance bodies may all hold different pieces of authority, knowledge and responsibility.
That distribution can improve autonomy and keep decisions closer to relevant knowledge. But the decisions themselves remain interdependent.
So what keeps the project coherent when legitimate decisions are being made in different places?
Does integration still need a central integrator, or can it emerge through governance, shared information and distributed decision mechanisms?
I explored this question in a recent article, “When Project Leadership Becomes Distributed”
In your experience, what prevents distributed leadership from becoming fragmented leadership?
