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Mr.
Brown is the IT security director at the "agency",
a large 100%-generic government organization. His mission is to implement
security as long as it has no impacts except for cost (thanks to
infinite taxpayer's money).
A very big
fan of the "magic quadrant",
Mr. Brown strongly believes buying technology is the first step in
any project. |
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Mike is
a security consultant at the TTF Group and the other main protanist.
He's been assigned to work on several IT projects
at the agency under the micro-management of Mr. Brown. Mike is genuinely
a good guy, although the firm policies sometimes interfere with his
integrity. |
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Meet the smart-looking Caitlin,
another failure-prone consultant. The firm drops her at the agency
from time to time when it's time to define workflows. She's good
at using Visio, but her common sense is out of order.
Her philosophy
is to propose random workflows hoping the customer's jaw will
drop in amazement to the floor. Sometimes, it works. |
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Doug is
a soon-to-be-retired bureaucrat at the agency. He's been left with
nothing to do all day, so his time is spent calling his friends and
finding unimportant information on the Internet.
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Rick
and John are generic middle managers at TTF Group.
I use them whenever I need to expose a plot to overcharge the
agency,
discuss
an upcoming
bid or simply to expose cluelessness on both sides. |
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Jack -
a specialist of numerous trades - works for a competing consulting
firm with a 3-letter name. His talent is to blur all lines by
introducing a generous amount of chaos. Because he has good hair
and pricey suits, he sounds convincing and his botched documents
are appreciated by the agency.
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Bruce is
the chain-smoking overworked project manager from the firm. Thanks
to his
inability
to say
no to his bosses, he gets assigned to several projects at the
same time, all in critical conditions with no
written statement of work.
Bruce regularly
wins the company's award for "Most Continuous Usage of Blackberry
During
Nighttime". |
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George is
a decorative VP at TTF Group and he's on dutty whenever a positive
spin is needed on a doomed project.
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