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Assignment: Interview a project manager about a project that failed The PM asked that I not use names because he was involved with a six-figure project that was aborted midway and he felt there might be some who would still be sensitive about it. It was an instructional design project that was meant to create a learning atmosphere that represented the classroom of the future. He said the two main things that derailed it (and which tend to interfere with most projects) were communication problems and the ambiguous nature of the problem at hand. Communication The main problem that occurs in instructional design situations is that individuals working on a project tend to think they understand each other and are in agreement, but in reality they are not. The PM I spoke with described a situation where he felt he had explained well a vision of what he imagined the design should be like and the designers came back with designs that didn't match at all what he was thinking, but wh