A project manager plays an exposed role in a project team: As a manager she is responsible for setting and reaching the project's goal withing time and budget, which means neccessarily coordinating the efforts of knowledge workers in the team.

Techniques often used by project managers of knowledge teams are: getting things done for self-management, mind mapping for contextualizing the flow of information regarding the project, milestone planning and gantt charts for setting goals and team synchronization to reduce the knowledge gap between team members.