Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager, Third Edition

© Michael Lopp 2016

Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2158-7_32

32. Bored People Quit

How to detect and fix boredom before it’s a resignation

Michael Lopp¹ 

(1)Los Gatos, California, USA

Much has been written about employee motivation and retention . It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily necessity of keeping your team professionally content, because they’ve either never done the work or have forgotten how it’s done. These are the people who show up when your single best engineer casually and unexpectedly announces, “I’m quitting. I’m joining my good friend to found a start-up. This is my two-weeks’ notice.”

You call on the motivation and retention police ...