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To Remove Project Barriers, Think  Servant First
As project managers, you must perform a number of management and leadership tasks to ensure successful execution of your projects. These tasks include everything from tracking the budget to keeping key stakeholders involved.
One critical task is removing barriers that may be preventing the team from succeeding. You can best accomplish this with a technique called servant leadership. FULL STORY
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 Quick Quiz
My organization absorbs costs and doesn’t want me to use change requests when customers add additional scope to my fixed-  price projects. I look like an inept project manager, never meeting time and budget projections. How can I accurately track my accomplishments?
A. Refuse to do the extra work for the customer without a signed change request.
B. Separate out time and cost for the mandatory overages and show management.
C. Explain directly to the customer why you and your team can’t include the changes.
D. Find a job at another organization that does not use fixed-price contracts.
Test your knowledge.
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