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Post 4 - Leading a Small PM Team: Three People, One Customer, Total Exposure

Managing a team of three project managers working with a single customer, like Audi, sounds simple. It isn’t. In many ways, it is one of the most exposed positions a PM can have. When the team is small, there is nowhere to hide. Every PM is visible. Every weakness is amplified. Every success or failure reflects directly on how the team is run. There are no buffers, no layers, and no place to dilute accountability. At this stage, the work is hands-on by necessity. Details are reviewed. Customer meetings are attended. Coaching happens in real time. The goal is not scale yet, it is craftsmanship. You are building a shared language: how to escalate, how to report, how to say no without damaging trust. The biggest challenge here is alignment. Three PMs can easily become three different voices to the same customer. That is unacceptable. Consistency matters more than creativity. The team must sound like one voice, even when individual styles differ. This exposure becomes even sharper when...