[Karunamon]

Is the barely-masked disdain really necessary?

The difference being that instead of having someone who is a "project manager", i.e. that's their job title, all they do is manage and set deadlines and such, you have one of your regular people be the responsible person for some project.

Guessing this is what you mean by "implicitly".

It nicely solves a recurrent enterprise problem where PMs have as their primary duty "go to meetings all day every day" and don't have any understanding of what precisely they're managing.