I've finally finished reading the excellent Peopleware book, and would like to share with you some of the notes I wrote to myself while I was reading it. Here we go (erm, spoilers up ahead, I guess...). Projects fail because of people (politics, communication, etc.), not because of technology. And yet we spend so much of our time worrying about this software or that tool instead of dedicating our time to the most important thing: taking care of our people. Working overtime for long periods of time...