Framework Scapegoating

Distinctions

What Is Framework Scapegoating?

• Blaming a method or framework for poor results when the surrounding system conditions required for it to work were never established.

System

What symptoms indicate Framework Scapegoating is occurring?

• Framework blamed for poor results
• Calls to abandon the method
• Endless framework switching
• Consultant churn

Relationships

What Capacity Gaps Enable Framework Scapegoating?

• Decision Clarity - When decisions lack clear ownership, delivery stalls, and the framework gets blamed.
• Accountability Integrity - When responsibility for outcomes is diffuse, failure gets attributed to the framework instead of the people accountable for results.
• Flow Efficiency - When work cannot move smoothly through the system, slow delivery is blamed on the framework rather than the overloaded flow.

What Frictions are Related to Framework Scapegoating?

• Cargo Cult Adoption usually creates the conditions that later lead to Framework Scapegoating

To-Do

• Distinctions
  • What Is Framework Scapegoating?
  • What is Not Framework Scapegoating?
• System
  • What system conditions enable Framework Scapegoating?
  • What symptoms indicate Framework Scapegoating is occurring?
    • You’re Inside Framework Scapegoating When
    • You’re Outside Framework Scapegoating When
• Relationships
  • What Capability Gaps Enable Framework Scapegoating?
  • What Interventions Reinforce Framework Scapegoating?
  • What Interventions Mitigate Framework Scapegoating?
    • To achieve {desired outcome}, ensure {what must be true}, otherwise {predictable failure}.
• Perspectives
  • Dominant Assumption
  • Alternative Perspective (Paradigm Shift)