Business Casual

Is there such a thing as a normal project? I can't remember the last time a project I was on went according to plan. Sometimes, of course, there is no actual plan for the project which helps add even more confusion and stress to the end of said project. And these are usually the projects that, at the end, you're asked to give a report on why the project had so much trouble. I don't know. Maybe it was because since we only had vague guidelines and guesses as to what we wanted to do in the first place, that somehow we didn't get exactly what we wanted at the end.

Basically, I've come to expect disasters, holdups, and other hindrances in a project life cycle after working in my profession for nearly 10 years. Even during times where it seems that we actually have a decent idea of what we're doing at the start of a project, some out-of-the-blue problem will inevitably come forward and throw any good progress out the window. So why are things this way in seemingly every workplace? Why don't I ever hear of anyone ever speaking up and defending their company, saying, "You know what, we DO have a good release plan, and the projects generally go as planned." Is it just the chaotic nature of life? Is it because people are involved and people are imperfect? It could be any number of reasons, and there's probably a bit of truth to each and every theory I have. I just wish that, for once, it wasn't the same "normal" project.