Is it normal for a PM to run 7 mobile development projects at the same time?

Question

Project management

Having worked in a non-mobile field, I know that 2-3 projects is the maximum for managing a project well without losing understanding of what is generally going on and staying sane.
Maybe in mobile development everything is different and the number of 7-10 projects is not critical?

Answer 1

There are counter questions here:

• 7 projects = 7 teams?
  
• How many people are subordinate to the manager?
  
• Do these people only work with him?
  
• The same manager monitors not only the performance of the project, but also the state of people?
  

There is a concept of " controllability standards " for managers, the golden mean is considered to be 7 people for one leader. If you have more people, and there is no one to whom you can delegate work (analysis, status check, etc.), then the load looks high for the effective work of one manager.

Answer 2

I think that a "project" can be called a lot of things. From this follows their volume and complexity, and hence the ability to manage them.
If the projects are not complex, for the development of existing ones, then 7 is difficult, but feasible.
If there are 7 full-fledged complex projects, then most likely it will be very difficult and up to the failure of all.
Right now I have 3 complex projects, 4 medium projects and a lot of small tasks and I feel like I can't handle some of them. And there are still large tasks for which I still "do not have time" to take on. I am on the client side.

Answer 3

with assistants it’s real,
whether it’s June PM (dangerous), analysts or products

Answer 4

No it's not real

Answer 5

If for show, then yes, I met this. And not only in virtual mode. But really, no, that's not possible.
And I will add. Such a PM was also a Scrum Master.

Answer 6

2-3, maximum 4 projects. If, of course, we are talking about the full management of the project ...