Most projects fail to meet expectations in terms of timeliness, quality, and compliance with budgetary requirements. The failure rate is astonishingly high at around 70%. One important and highly underrated reason for this is that teams are dysfunctional, lacking essential and ongoing communication about project objectives, purpose, and scope and missing alignment of purpose, expectations, and interests and that projects are often pre-planned in great detail. Managers often expect they can plan for all the variables in a complex project in advance. In reality, they can’t. Nobody is that smart or has that clear a crystal ball.