5/04/2011

Sociodynamic position based on Synergy and Antagonism

I got a question in Project Management as below. I have to spend lot of time to find a proper solution. So I think it is better to put my solution here.

Question : What are the categories of individuals based on Synergy and Antagonism? As a project manager how will you response to those different types of individuals to make your IT project successful?

In “Managing sensitive projects: a lateral approach” By Olivier d'. Herbemont, Bruno César, Tom Curtin, Pascal Etcheber , a book related to the Project Management, describes different levels of synergy and antagonism. By representing the synergy in x axis and antagonism in y axis can create a grid and on top of that categories of individuals or sociodynamic position of individuals exists as shown in below figure. The sociodynamic position of an individual in a project is not fixed and can vary depending on time or their understanding of the project.

Then I’m going to describe what are they and as a project manager how I manage those guys.