It is your role to ensure adequate utilization for your team such that conflicts on bandwidth are minimized, no individual is over-utilized, and work is sequenced based on known priorities. In some sense, it is not within your role to synchronize the projects. So if you have a deadline with one project make sure everyone else knows it. And above all, communicate to each of the PMs demanding your team's time. There needs to be an escalation route so that conflicts can be analyzed and sorted through. I would suggest being crystal clear as to the known priorities under which you are operating and the level of promised utilization you committed for your team under each project. Usually, you see this question from the PM point of view, who is trying to ensure its matrixed resources are utilized to his/her benefit over the other projects. The organization needs to resolve this problem if it chooses to advance in its project management maturity level. When projects and project managers are out of sync, this is an issue at the organizational level.
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