About this site

Have Project Will Travel is not a travel blog. It’s not a productivity system. It’s not a collection of leadership advice.

It is a body of work drawn from real projects, in real environments, where outcomes depended on more than plans. In fact where sometimes following the plan guaranteed failure.

• Systems that didn’t behave as expected
• Decisions made far from consequences
• Work shaped by power, not process

If you’ve worked in complex environments, you’ll recognise these.

Themes

Recurring patterns in project:

• Governance Failure — projects that are systematically destined to fail
• False Green - when project dashboards lie or omit the truth
• Reality vs Plan - when the Plan becomes the real constraint
• Political Projects - when the project approach simply doesn’t work
• Operational Truth - projects not grounded in reality can never deliver
• Places — environments that shaped the outcome