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A Project success is Team’s success, A Project failure is Project Manager’s failure. Is Project Manager ONLY responsible for Project failure ? Kindly share experiences or quote examples for above d

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Navdeep Singh Sethi Lead Technical Programme Manager| Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited Bangalore, Karnataka, India
A Project success is Team’s success, A Project failure is Project Manager’s failure.

Is Project Manager ONLY responsible for Project failure ?

Kindly share experiences or quote examples for above discussion topic.
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Mike Dewing Senior Project Manager / Program Manager| MLD Holdings Ltd. Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
In my opinion a PM shares successes and provide learning opportunities when things go astray. I will do what I can to protect my teams and will share the success with them. It is not about me, but our overall success and how we effected a positive change to the organization.
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Tim Podesta Director of PM/PMO| Former BP- now Independent Penn, Bucks, United Kingdom
Jun 15, 2017 10:26 AM
Replying to Matthew Morey
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I am often called in to recover failing projects and I find that projects are set to fail from the beginning because of poor scope definition, expectation management, and change management (to include risk). These areas are all PM's purview, and to be blunt, I'm a big believer that the leader takes the blame, but spreads the praise. Whether or not you are directly responsible for the project failure, you ARE responsible because you should be the leader of that team, regardless of organization structure, risks, or absent Project Sponsors. It's why I wrote an article about which character class a PM would be in an online game:

http://www.c4-elt.com/2016/04/online-role-playing-game-which.html
Matthew. Your attached link is a brilliant article and analogy that I would like to reference in my quest to mentor younger PM's in the PMI UK Chapter - is it available in a presentation format? The Tanker role is spot on as the focal point to ensure smooth running of the project to plan - and adapt as required. I am also a Professional Toastmaster , a Master of Ceremonies for special events and the ability to facilitate silent running to a plan is a core skill.
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Navdeep Singh Sethi Lead Technical Programme Manager| Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Thanks everyone for putting your valuable views and thought on this forum. I has helped in developing betting understanding of the Project Managers responsibility on success and failure of the project.
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Adrian Carlogea Australia
Jun 12, 2017 3:51 AM
Replying to Fazal Hussain Aasar
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Project manager sets direction of the team so when a project fails most of it is his/her fault, be it mismanagement of human resources or not working efficiently, vice versa when project gets successful project manager is the one who gets the most fruit of it.
This may be true when the PM is also the technical lead of the project. If the PM is not also a good technical expert then he will not be able to set too much direction to the team because he will not know what work related instructions to give to the team members.

My experience is that PMs are generally not fully responsible for the failure of a project especially when they are not also good technical experts capable of managing the technical aspects involved in the project.

When the technical leads/managers take work related decisions that prove to be bad for the project it would be absurd to blame the PM as he/she had absolutely no power over these issues.

PMs should only be responsible for just some aspects of the project and not be blamed for things that are beyond their control. And I can tell you many things in a project are beyond the control of the PM, not just the technical aspects. :)
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