{"id":31,"date":"2004-09-14T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T04:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-02-17T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T21:23:15","slug":"applied-peopleware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2004\/09\/applied-peopleware\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Peopleware"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I bought some books so I made my first purchase off Amazon.com<\/a>. Thinking that it would really take the 4-6 weeks delivery to get to Australia, I was surprised when all six books arrived about a week and a half after placing the order.<\/p>\n

Of all the books I had orderd, the first that I have been keen to read was Peopleware<\/a> written by De Marco and Lister, a couple of authors well known for their books surrounding observations and studies made about management principles, with a particular focus on IT. Reading books like this remind me so much of Dilbert cartoons and how very accurate they are of real life scenarios (especially my last workplace). <\/p>\n

This was actually a very fun book to read (and that’s saying something) becuase it is so relevant to a lot of issues people I know are going through and some of the situations I’ve been in my short career in this industry. Here are some good points that jumped out at me:<\/p>\n