The Project Saboteur has been undermining big projects since the beginning. Not just IT projects, although sabotage gets the most awareness there, but all projects in business.

Every project has opponents who try to manipulate it so that the result better suits them. A naive idea? Hardly! People have the inclination to adjust truth to suit themselves and thus serve their own interests: more power, more income, more respect.

Even though it is rampant, little attention has been paid until now to the art of undermining and manipulating projects. And yet many millions of Euros a year are squandered as a result of project sabotage. If more attention is given to the motivation and methods of project saboteurs, this will lead to large savings and better project results.

This book explains how to sabotage a project, the motivations that guide the project saboteur, the alliances the project saboteur might make, and most importantly, how to stop him. Because you understand how the saboteur is thinking and why he is doing what he does, then you have a greater chance of stopping him. You might even be able to convert him to your cause.

It includes real-life case studies, examples, and helpful check lists and tables to determine if there's a project saboteur at work. They're out there, and now you know how to kill them – we accept no legal responsibility for your actions as a result.

Jeroen Gietema has more than thirty years project and management experience in the field of information and communication technology. After studying computer technique he worked for Volmac and Capgemini. With Capgemini Jeroen worked as Division Quality manager and Deputy Area Quality Manager. In addition to his work he studied business science. In 1997 he started to work as an independent IT management consultant. In his role as IT management consultant Jeroen headed up large computerisation projects, was responsible for quality, requirements and supplier management and consulted in the area of logistic service provision. Jeroen specialized and is actively involved in Agile development of complex software solutions. He gained his experience in large financial, governmental, the industrial and logistic organisations. Since 2011 Jeroen is co-owner and CEO of Cedira B.V., a company that develops and provides WEB based solutions and management consulting services. The most important WEB based service developed under his responsibility is ProSpondo, an assessment and impact analyses engine with advanced analysis and reporting capabilities.

Dion Kotteman has extensive project management experience in the for-profit and not-for-profit sector. He worked as the Chief Information Officer of the Dutch Government, then as an executive advisor to the Dutch Minister of Finance, and now consults and is a non-executive board member of companies. His working history includes general manager of the Dutch National Audit Authority, and an executive in the banking world, mainly in IT and security. He was responsible for major change projects for the government of the Netherlands and in the Dutch financial sector. He headed up computerisation projects for the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and was responsible for a number of large European projects. He has also worked as a commissioner of police for Interpol and Europol. Since 1997, he has worked for several large banks including ING and ABN AMRO, where he concentrated on information security dealing with international concerns. At ING, he was programme director. Dion did his Executive Masters of Business Administration at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and at Nyenrode University. Dion frequently lectures and consults on management.