About the Host
Luigi Rondanini is a project manager and organizational transformation consultant who has spent the past two years implementing OrbaOS principles in live treasury system projects for financial institutions.
Frustrated by the coordination overhead that plagues enterprise IT, Luigi began experimenting with AI-assisted coordination—starting with the radical question: "What if we stopped having status meetings?"
This podcast explores the insights, challenges, and opportunities that emerge when organizations move beyond traditional project management toward autonomous coordination.
About the Podcast
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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Latest Episodes
Tesla and SpaceX: When Mission Becomes the Coordination Mechanism
Published: January 26, 2026 • 00:15:37
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 th...
GitHub: How a Platform Coordinates Millions Without Project Managers
Published: January 19, 2026 • 00:11:33
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 meeti...
Haier: Four Thousand Startups Inside One Company
Published: January 12, 2026 • 00:07:04
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 tradit...
The Enterprise AI Reality Check: Why the Future Is Taking Longer Than Expected
Published: January 6, 2026 • 00:12:44
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 sho...
Spotify: The Squad Model Examined
Published: January 5, 2026 • 00:08:14
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: autonomo...
Netflix: How Context Replaced Coordination
Published: December 29, 2025 • 00:08:10
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 organisati...
The Death of the Digital Project Manager: Will Your Job Exist in 2040?
Published: December 22, 2025 • 00:10:39
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 allo...
The Coordination Tax: Where Does Your Budget Actually Go?
Published: December 15, 2025 • 00:11:58
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, Managemen...
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The Coordination Tax: Why Projects Fail
Understanding the hidden costs of manual coordination and why traditional project management creates overhead instead of value.
Read on Medium →From Projects to Flow: The OrbaOS Methodology
A comprehensive guide to implementing flow-based operations and moving beyond traditional project structures.
Read on Medium →The 12 Principles: The OrbaOS Manifesto
The foundational principles that guide organizations in the post-project world, from continuous flow to human flourishing.
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