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Dion Kotteman & Jeroen Gietema - The Project Saboteur
The secret manual for the project saboteur
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Until now, because this is The Project Saboteur, a manual on how to sabotage a project in a clever way. Sometimes it is just more convenient. What to do if you are working on a project that could lose you your job? Openly objecting the project will only get you fired quicker. Subversive smarts are the answer. So how can you force the project to a hold at the right time as project manager, client, stakeholder, user, or specialist?
The real world is full of sabotage and people who want to gain an advantage, as long as the tension outweighs the benefits. Which is similar for all human behavior, in organizations, in business, in change processes, in IT and outside of IT, or was your conviction that all people are good?
This is the time to embrace your sabotage urges because with this manual you will succeed more often. And then there is another option, to learn from these practices. Acknowledge that there are saboteurs in your project teams, many of them and you can run into them all the time. Most of all, learn how to deal with them. That has to be done in the right way, for which you really need to know saboteurs and their motives.
This is essential, research shows that over 65% of all IT-projects fail partially or fully, creating a loss of six billion euro in Dutch IT alone, a sum far greater if we zoom out to a global scale for all industries. By dealing with the project saboteur’s interests in a responsible manner, you will be able to limit the damages greatly. The authors provide three tools to achieve this goal: the Sabotage Self-Assessment, the Conspiracy-Fact Analysis, and the Manipulation-Fact Analysis.
Read this book and become a sabotage expert!
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Published in July 2023 | Hardcover | 160 pages | ca. 30,000 words
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Dion Kotteman is an experienced strategist and IT specialist in the public domain. He is partner at Grey Matter Matters, a governmental consultancy company. He coaches C-level positions in companies and governments and contributes to the realization of complex ambitions on both IT and business operations for organizations. His experience is in the private and public sectors, as he served as IT Security Director of ING Bank Group, General Manager of the Royal Audit Services, and Council Advisor for the Minister of Finance. He is a speaker, lectures at several universities, regularly joins forces with the Academy For Information and Management and the European Institute of Public Administration, and has written several books. He graduated at the Nyenrode Business University and the Wharton School of Management.
Jeroen Gietema has over 35 years of experience in executing, supporting, and leading IT and change projects. He was a Division Quality Manager and Deputy Area Quality Manager at Capgemini and is a freelance professional since 1997. He co-founded and directed an organization of independent consultants and has worked in various interim jobs for project, program, and quality management. He studied Technical Computer Science and Business Administration and is a qualified Certified Management Consultant. Jeroen is currently a program manager with a large financial institution.
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Project Saboteur
2. Crime 1: the method to sabotage projects
3. Sabotage the bureaucratic machinery of the project
4. The client as a saboteur
5. The project manager as a saboteur
6. The user as a saboteur
7. The specialist as a saboteur
8. The Work Council member as a saboteur
9. The criminal conspiracy
10. The agile way of sabotage
11. Criminal finale
12. The actuality of sabotage
13. The project sabotage approach
14. Epilogue
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