Factors influencing project manager's ability to deliver a software engineering project

Mostly pushed by the maturity of information and communication technology (ICT) and readiness of customers to embrace the change, the software engineering organizations (the Organizations) have built their businesses, engineering teams and managers around culture, working processes and methodological frameworks scaled mainly for onsite work, accompanied with managerial (authoritative or delegator) influence style. With already present lack of available software engineers (SE's), new era for software engineering managers begun with the need for response to change called "COVID-19". Relying on their experience gathered in years long projects, authors are analyzing challenges that the Software Engineering Project Manager (PM) is faced while delivering software project with a group of SE's, working together in geographically distributed environment.