THE POST-PROJECT WORLD PODCAST SERIES

The Post-Project World explores the architectural shift happening now in organizations adopting AI and machine-mediated infrastructure. Most AI discussions focus on capability and productivity. This podcast focuses on governance, coordination capital, and the organizational infrastructure that enables or prevents AI adoption at scale. Each episode addresses: How should organizations think about ma...

Three interconnected publications are coming that reshape how institutional leaders measure, govern, and manage organizational structure. The Coordination Capital Doctrine (July 7, 2026) is a governance specification establishing measurement, structural floor derivation, and board-level interpretation of coordination capital—the material share of organizational cost consumed by coordination activi...

We've seen the evidence. Netflix, Spotify, Haier, GitHub, Tesla and SpaceX—all operating without traditional project managers. We've traced the history from craft guilds to algorithms. We've examined why even Agile isn't sufficient. Now the question: why does this matter now? Why is this moment different from every previous wave of automation hype? Because we're at a tipping po...

The Agile Manifesto was a genuine revolution. It identified real problems with traditional management and gave us better ways to work. Scrum, Kanban, XP—these methodologies have improved millions of projects. But here's the uncomfortable truth: Agile didn't eliminate coordination overhead. It redistributed it. Daily standups. Sprint planning. Retrospectives. Backlog refinement. These are s...

Humanity has organised work in fundamentally different ways across history. Understanding this arc helps us see where we're headed—and why this moment is different. In this episode, I trace the evolution of coordination through four distinct ages. Each transition seemed impossible until it happened. Each displaced roles that seemed essential. And each ultimately created more human value than it de...

Several listeners asked for a recap episode that ties together everything we learned from the case studies. This bonus episode is my response to that request. We've examined five radically different organizations—Netflix, Spotify, Haier, GitHub, and Tesla/SpaceX. Different industries. Different cultures. Different approaches. But they all point in the same direction. In this special recap epis...

Elon Musk runs multiple complex organisations with significantly fewer middle managers than traditional competitors. Love him or hate him, there's something worth understanding here. SpaceX builds rockets with a fraction of the management overhead that NASA contractors require. Tesla scaled faster than any automotive company in history with an organisational structure that defies conventional wisd...

Linux is one of the most complex software systems ever built. Over twenty thousand developers have contributed to it. In a single year, more than four thousand developers submit changes across thousands of companies and every continent. And there's no project manager. No Gantt charts. No status meetings. No resource allocation spreadsheets. How is this possible? In this episode, I explore how GitH...

In 2012, Zhang Ruimin fired ten thousand middle managers. Not because Haier was failing—because he saw where the future was heading. Today, Haier is the world's largest appliance maker. Inside it operate over four thousand micro-enterprises, each functioning like an independent startup. No traditional hierarchy. No central coordination bureaucracy. Just small teams competing and collaborating...

Microsoft just revised its AI growth targets by 50%. The Carlyle Group cut their Copilot spending. Gartner predicted 30% of AI projects would fail. The actual rate? 70 to 85%. In this bonus episode, I confront the question some of you have been asking: was I wrong about the post-project world? The short answer is no. The longer answer is more interesting. I break down what actually happened with M...

Spotify's Squad Model has been copied by thousands of organisations worldwide. Most implementations miss the point entirely. In this episode, I examine what Spotify actually did—and what they've learned since publishing their famous engineering culture videos. The model looks simple on paper: autonomous squads, chapters for functional excellence, guilds for knowledge sharing, tribes for coordinati...

Netflix has no traditional project managers. Let that sink in. One of the most successful companies in the world, operating in one of the most competitive industries, running complex technology and content production at massive scale, has eliminated the role we've been told is essential to organisational success. How do they do it? In this episode, I break down Netflix's "context, not control" phi...

Gartner predicts eighty percent of project management tasks will be automated by 2030. In this episode, I confront what that means for our profession—and why it's not the disaster it sounds like. I walk through every core function of traditional project management—scheduling, reporting, resource allocation, risk management, meeting facilitation—and examine which actually require human involvement....

Welcome to The Post-Project World. In this opening episode, I share a disturbing discovery from a five million dollar treasury transformation programme: twenty-eight percent of the budget went to coordination overhead, not value creation. I introduce the Four M Framework—Meetings, Messages, Management, and Movement—and break down exactly how organisations hemorrhage resources on the friction of hu...