Good at an Unfunded Work? Now You're Doing It Forever | AA270

Did your company cut the Scrum Master role and called it self-organization? Where did the coordination work go? We'll bet it landed on someone who doesn't get paid to do it. Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Leader Om Patel argue through what happens when organizations defund facilitation roles but keep the complex frameworks. Stick with as Brian tries to discern if "let the team figure it out" is really just financial code for a transfer of labor from funded to unfunded and stay till the end to understand how to spot the competence tax on your own team. Listen or watch as we discuss: • Why "automate it with AI" and "let the team self-organize" are the same failure • What is the competence tax: being good at unfunded coordination work • Who non-promotable tasks disproportionately land on and why • How NOBODY EVER accidentally rolled out SAFe and "forgot" to fund roles If you're an Engineer, Product Person, Scrum Master, or Agile Coach watching coordination work get quietly dumped onto the wrong people, this episode is for you! I fight for the users! #ScrumMaster #Agile #CompetenceTax Tanya Reilly (Being Glue, Lead Dev talk), Winning with People by John Maxwell, Babcock and Vesterland (gender differences in non-promotable tasks), SAFe, Squarespace CHAPTERS 00:00:00 - The Unfunded Coordination Role Problem 00:01:44 - Show Intro 00:03:39 - Part One: Automate It - OR - Underfund It 00:05:03 - Arguing Points: Automate It Away 00:07:09 - Bots Cannot Form Relationships 00:09:10 - Why Women Avoid Unfunded Coordination Work 00:11:31 - Automating Judgement Calls 00:12:43 - Corporate Actions vs Corporate Words 00:18:41 - Part 2: The Competence Tax 00:19:29 - The Competence Tax: Unfunded Excellence 00:20:24 - Tanya Reilly's Glue Work Article 00:23:28 - The Gender Dimension of Unfunded Work 00:24:42 - Infuriating Steel Man Points 00:27:42 - The Competence Trap: Best Person Gets Stuck 00:28:44 - Why Solo Contributors Can't Sustain Alone 00:30:00 - Part Two Takeaway: Recognize the Pattern 00:32:25 - Part Three: Why Fund a Framework Without Funding Roles? 00:32:59 - Governance Without Adoption or Commitment 00:33:59 - Steelman: At Least We Tried! 00:35:33 - Why Leadership Chooses This Path 00:37:43 - Takeaways for Fishy Roll-outs 00:38:50 - The FINAL Sticky LINKS YouTube:    / @arguingagile   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/362QvYO... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... INTRO MUSIC Toronto Is My Beat By Whitewolf (Source: https://ccmixter.org/files/whitewolf2...) CC BY 4.0 DEED (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)