Jerome Kanter and John J. Walsh mentioned in their article that Lack of communication with management is the main reason for project failure. Several workshop attendees referred to the lack of communication within management — “what the project manager tells the functional manager, what the functional manager says, and what senior management hears appear to be different.” A major problem was that people were afraid to upset the VP by disagreeing with proposed completion dates. Communication with the contract programmers was also cited as a problem area. After a workshop, they mentioned Know and respond to the “real” status of the project. “Shooting the messenger” is counter-productive to open communication. Management must encourage honest feedback through the management chain. The system must accurately report project status, identify problems, and assign accountability for problem resolution. T.J. Bond-Barnard1* & H. Steyn2 (2013) mentioned that one of the most important and most frequently-mentioned challenges to program management is that of communication between project team members Pinto & Pinto and Pinto & Covin explain that effective communication between team members is very important in a project, as this communication fosters cooperation between the team members, which is so vital to project success. Communication in a program or project environment is defined as the transfer of information between the program or project stakeholders; it involves a person or entity transmitting a message, and another person or entity receiving and successfully understanding the message in response [9]. Cross-functional communication in a program occurs among a group of people with different functional specialties or multidisciplinary skills, who are responsible for carrying out all the phases of a program or project from start to finish . For the purposes of this study, ‘cross-functional communication’ refers to communication between the project team members, rather than to communication between groups of people with different functional specialties.>