4 Reasons Why Tech Consultants Get Sacked; The biggest sins: Promising what can't be delivered and not closing the loop in client communications. To do either is to invite calamity

No. 3: Lack of project management. The ongoing dispute between the FBI and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is a classic instance of the problems that can arise without adequate project management, ideally by both the client and the contractor. The FBI, you may recall, hired SAIC in 2001 to build a Virtual Case File (VCF) project. Four years and $104 million later it finally became evident to the client that the VCF effort was a disaster.