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Role Friction Map
A diagnostic for testing whether friction comes from role scope, environment, capability, or the evidence available.
Name the official shape of your role: what is assigned, rewarded, and expected.
Name the product questions you notice, even when they are not formally yours.
Name the decisions you cannot stop caring about and the direction your work is pulling you.
Name where you have opinions but no authority, or where you are brought in too late.
Name the moments where your attention sharpens, then test whether the pattern survives changes in workload, environment, and responsibility.
What it helps you see
It exposes the questions or checks that need to be answered before the product behavior can be trusted.
How to use it
Write a short answer next to each line, then compare attention with fatigue, context, demonstrated capability, and evidence. The output is a diagnosis to test, not proof that a role has been outgrown.
Use it when
Use this when a product question in Introduction — When the Role Stops Fitting needs structure before it becomes a screen, roadmap item, or portfolio claim.
Practice prompt
Choose a real product, project, or career decision and answer the framework's items in order. Carry forward the answer that changes the next move.
Source chapter
This framework was authored in Introduction — When the Role Stops Fitting. Read the chapter for the full argument and the worked examples that produced this shape.