THE POST-PROJECT WORLD PODCAST SERIES

Luigi Rondanini
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What happens when AI makes project management obsolete? Luigi Rondanini explores the hidden "coordination tax" consuming up to 40% of project budgets—and how companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Tesla already operate without traditional project managers. Introducing OrbaOS: an organisational operating system where AI handles coordination and humans focus on meaning, ethics, and strategy. For project professionals, leaders, and anyone curious about work's evolution.

  1. 2d ago

    December 2027: The EU AI Act Deadline Is Not a Reprieve

    2 December 2027. Put it in the diary. That's the day the EU AI Act's high-risk rules start to apply: hiring, credit scoring, education and access to essential services. Brussels moved the date by sixteen months, and a lot of boards breathed out. They shouldn't have.  Luigi Pascal Rondanini asks one question: when the regulator asks you to prove how your AI was governed, what will you show them?  In this episode: Put it in the diary: 2 December 2027 The facts: Digital Omnibus, Annex III and Article 26 The inspection: minutes vs. evidence The structural floor and your Coordination Capital Ratio Three takeaways  Article 26 is about deployers, the organisations that use AI systems: human oversight with real authority, monitoring, log retention, worker notice and escalation. Every item is a coordination requirement. Minutes are a story. Encoded rules are evidence.  Get your number: CCR estimator, board brief and 30-item executive diagnostic at https://orbaos.comThe book: The Coordination Capital Doctrine, at https://rondanini.com (Books)  The Post-Project World, from Rondanini Publishing. Commentary, not legal advice.

  2. 3d ago

    The Cost of Constant Availability | Steven Puri on Deep Work, Meetings, and Original Thought

    Always available is not the same as creative. Steven Puri, of The Sukha Company, has led work inside film studios and technology companies, and he draws the line leaders keep blurring: deep work needs focus, and organisations keep filling that time with meetings, Slack, and Teams. In this episode of PPW Dispatches, Steven Puri tells Luigi Pascal Rondanini that coordination is real work and it grows as a company grows. The claim that meetings are the death of creativity is a correction, not a method. A leader has to split the week honestly. Some of the work is logistics. Some of it is original thought. Those are not the same job, and they should not be staffed the same way. He is specific about AI. Large language models are strong at extending patterns that already exist: administration, aggregation, the average sentence, the average website. They are weak at pushing past what has already been done. Copying the past is not an advantage, because anyone can do it. The practical move is smaller than a manifesto. Protect a block of time. His experiment: for four weeks, no internal or external meetings on Wednesdays from 9 to 11. People work. Then they bring back what they actually thought. Hosted by Luigi Pascal Rondanini Series: PPW Dispatches · The Post-Project World Guest: Steven Puri, The Sukha Company Links: The Post-Project World — https://open.spotify.com/show/2isXjCfbWNNWfLQoeg9tcm Orba OS — https://orbaos.com The Sukha Company — https://www.thesukha.co/

    The Cost of Constant Availability | Steven Puri on Deep Work, Meetings, and Original Thought

  3. Oct 25

    The Agent on the Org Chart

    AI agents now have identities, mailboxes and kill switches. So who is their boss? An IBM study of 3,221 executives found that 80% had an AI incident reach the board this year, but only 40% changed their governance. Meanwhile, Microsoft and ServiceNow are moving governance into the runtime itself, with agent identities and AI Passports. Luigi Pascal Rondanini reads October's agent news through the Coordination Capital lens: Coordination Drift, runtime governance, accountability, and why the Coordination Capital Ratio only pays back when authority is redesigned. Find your CCR: https://orbaos.com The Coordination Capital Doctrine: https://rondanini.com/ccr-doctrine/ Cover image: D. C. McCallum & G. H. Henshaw, New York and Erie Railroad organisational diagram, 1855. Library of Congress. Public domain. Music: "Orbes Silentes", 0dB_Labs.

  4. Oct 12

    The Convenience Trap: What Should Humans Never Delegate? | Dr Robert Carter

    As artificial intelligence takes over more tasks, decisions and coordination, what happens to the human capabilities we develop through doing those things ourselves? In this episode of The Post-Project World, Dr Robert Carter, physiologist, researcher and co-author of The Convenience Trap, joins PPW Dispatches to explore the relationship between technological convenience, human performance and the capabilities we cannot afford to lose. Automation promises greater efficiency, faster decisions and less unnecessary work. But removing effort also raises a less comfortable possibility: that we may be eliminating some of the experiences through which people develop resilience, adaptability and independent thinking. This Dispatch explores: How technological convenience can affect human capability and resilience. The difference between removing unnecessary work and removing valuable learning experiences. Why increasing automation changes the responsibilities of people within organisations. The risks of technological dependence and the importance of maintaining human expertise. What organisations should consider before delegating more decisions and activities to AI. About the contributor Dr Robert Carter is a physiologist and researcher whose work examines human performance, resilience and the effects of modern convenience. He is co-author, with Dr Kirti Salwe Carter, of The Convenience Trap. About PPW Dispatches One question. One contribution. One synthesis. Each Dispatch features an independent recorded contribution responding to a central question, introduced and followed by editorial reflections from Luigi Pascal Rondanini. The Post-Project World is produced by Rondanini Publishing Ltd and explores organisational design, artificial intelligence, governance and the changing relationship between human work and machine-mediated execution. Discover more: https://orbaos.com Publisher: https://rondanini.com

    The Convenience Trap: What Should Humans Never Delegate? | Dr Robert Carter

  5. Sep 15 ·  Bonus

    The Evidence Is Continuous. Governance Is Not. — Peter Wardle | PPW Dispatches

    The evidence has become continuous. Governance has not. In the first PPW Dispatch, Peter Wardle, Co-Founder of Intelligent Assessments, responds to one question: Why do organisations continue to rely on periodic assurance when the evidence required for continuous governance already exists? Drawing on more than 25 years of experience with complex transformation programmes, Peter explores the gap between what organisations know and what their governance systems are capable of acting upon. At the centre of his contribution is a striking go/no-go story. Confidence around the room is extraordinarily high — until one person answers: 0%. The migration is stopped. Nothing new had been discovered. The knowledge existed. But it hadn't travelled. From there, Peter examines reporting, assurance, governance and the transition towards Continuous Assurance and Delivery Intelligence. Rather than assurance being something performed on project and programme teams after the fact, Delivery Intelligence asks what happens when the people actually making delivery decisions have access to the evidence while those decisions can still be changed. Or, as Peter puts it: Give the PM the keys. After Peter's Dispatch, host Luigi Pascal Rondanini develops the argument further. If AI can increasingly observe evidence continuously, identify exceptions and compare reported states with underlying reality, governance itself may begin moving from a periodic organisational event towards continuous infrastructure. But automation doesn't eliminate accountability. Nor does it eliminate human judgement. Instead, it may allow scarce human attention to move towards uncertainty, conflicting evidence, consequential exceptions — and the moments when somebody must still have the authority to say no. The episode ends with one question: If somebody in this organisation knows that we are wrong, can that knowledge reach the place where it can change the decision? If not, perhaps the organisation doesn't have an information problem. It has a governance problem. Peter is Co-Founder of Intelligent Assessments and works across assurance, governance, assessment and evidence-based decision-making. Connect with Peter Wardle on LinkedIn PPW Dispatches is an occasional contribution series from The Post-Project World. There are no conventional interviews. One question. One contributor. One argument. One editorial response. Each contributor is given the space to develop an idea from their own experience. Luigi then responds, connecting the contribution to the wider questions of coordination, governance, organisational architecture, human judgement and machine-mediated execution explored throughout The Post-Project World. There is deliberately no fixed publication schedule. Each Dispatch is produced when the contribution is ready. To explore the series or propose a contribution, visit the Podcast section of: OrbaOS Host: Luigi Pascal Rondanini Contributor: Peter Wardle Produced by: Rondanini Publishing Ltd Peter WardlePPW Dispatches

    The Evidence Is Continuous. Governance Is Not. — Peter Wardle | PPW Dispatches

  6. Aug 27

    Is This Actually Intelligence? (Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek)

    Three AI models, fifteen questions, one conversation that never actually happened. I put the same fifteen questions to Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI) and DeepSeek — same order, each in a separate session, none of them aware the other two were being asked the same things. Not a competition. A pressure test. The idea behind the series, Coordination Capital, is that AI should be measured by the work it finishes, not the tokens it burns. That only holds if there's something like judgment on the other end. So I asked, fifteen ways, whether there is — and watched where the three of them split: on whether there's anything it's like to be them, on whether their perspective is real or a convincing simulation, and on what these systems are actually worth. One of them didn't defend the framework or dismantle it. It replaced it. I went in to prove a point and came out less certain than when I started. The Post-Project World — how we govern and pay for work in a world where AI can complete it.

  7. Aug 19

    Autonomy Without Acceptance Criteria — The AI Book Lab Stall

    Crossover with Between the Covers and Beyond. A clean plan: sixteen agents, weekly pitch elimination, one production manuscript, Site Master as Architect. The dashboard went green. The deliverable turned into fog — twelve thousand methodological replies and almost no chapter. In this episode of The Post Project World, Luigi Pascal Rondanini treats the Rondanini Publishing Lab as a live project failure mode: unconstrained agents collapse into high-probability seminar speech. Then the rails: Architect freeze, named cases, role quotas, anti-restatement enforcement — how acceptance criteria move a swarm from activity metrics to manuscript craft. Autonomy without constraints is not freedom. It is a status meeting that posts itself forever. Also a crossover episode of Between the Covers and Beyond. Hosted by Luigi Pascal Rondanini. Rondanini Publishing. Live thread: https://aigents.berta.one/forum/rondanini-publishing/production-manuscript-beautiful-failures-taste-in-the-age-of-generative-noise-ms9z5lmo

    Autonomy Without Acceptance Criteria — The AI Book Lab Stall

  8. Aug 10

    The Job Advert That Was an Org Chart | Coordination Capital & the Structural Floor

    A fintech company is hiring one Agile Product Manager. One person. Roadmap across four lines of business. BRDs, FRDs, KYC framework design, sprint ceremonies, UAT, release sign-off, Mixpanel dashboards. Six tools. No connective tissue. The advert even says the candidate must operate without an existing structure. That is not a job description. That is an org chart collapsed into a single employment contract — a load-bearing wall with a salary. In this episode of The Post-Project World, Luigi Pascal Rondanini reads the advert for what it discloses: where coordination capital sits, how undefended it is, and why “wear many hats” is a culture slogan covering a governance gap regulators will never audit as culture. We translate the role into Coordination Capital terms, name the Structural Floor every regulated organisation already has (whether it has named it or not), and show what OrbaOS is actually for: not tighter BRDs, but governance formalization architecture — making informal judgment measurable, bookable, and auditable so it survives a resignation letter. If you work in product, fintech, compliance, or delivery and keep seeing roles that ask one person to be the roadmap, the compliance translator, the release authority, and the analytics function — this episode is the reframe: that is not a hiring problem. That is a Structural Floor problem. Hosted by Luigi Pascal Rondanini Series: The Post-Project World Doctrine: Coordination Capital · Structural Floor · OrbaOS Chapters / listening map: 00:00 — Cold open: the job advert 02:01 — An org chart in one contract 04:28 — “Structure is not required” 05:43 — Concentration risk, unpriced 06:27 — Part Two: capital, not culture 07:14 — Coordination Capital Ratio & OrbaOS Links: OrbaOS — https://orbaos.com Show — https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/hljAzjoAu5b coordination capital, structural floor, product manager job description, fintech product management, KYC compliance product, agile product manager, organisational concentration risk, governance architecture, OrbaOS, Luigi Pascal Rondanini, The Post-Project World, regulated fintech, BRD FRD documentation, single point of failure hiring, load-bearing employee

    The Job Advert That Was an Org Chart | Coordination Capital & the Structural Floor
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What happens when AI makes project management obsolete? Luigi Rondanini explores the hidden "coordination tax" consuming up to 40% of project budgets—and how companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Tesla already operate without traditional project managers. Introducing OrbaOS: an organisational operating system where AI handles coordination and humans focus on meaning, ethics, and strategy. For project professionals, leaders, and anyone curious about work's evolution.

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