ABSTRACT
Segmenting the field of play allows the individual identification of those players who could act for or against a project. Jean-Christian Fauvet, one of the founding fathers of sociodynamics, proposed an efficient tool to measure with precision the level of involvement of a player in a project and to identify allies dispassionately. The idea behind sociodynamics is simple. First, players fall into two camps: those who expend a lot of energy on a project and those who do not expend much energy. The second contribution of sociodynamics is that it allows someone to be both synergetic and antagonistic for a given project. Sociodynamics allows one to stipulate and to rate the different types of players who are considered as allies of a project: the zealots and golden triangles are the first-order allies, the waverers are potential allies, and the passives are the allies that are at stake because it is their support or rejection that will make the decision.
