Engineering Manager's Handbook

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Retaining Talent

Once you are comfortable with the day-to-day work of leading your team, as an engineering manager, you begin to look more to the future. As you implement the strategies from this book and your leadership efforts evolve from big changes to small improvements, your focus shifts to how to retain what you have built. In Part 5 of the book, we will look at the work of engineering managers over a longer time horizon and begin by exploring long-term strategies to retain talent.

As software development is a type of knowledge work, much of the value we add to our projects stems from the collective knowledge of our team members. For that reason, as managers, our task to preserve what we build necessitates retaining these valuable individuals ...