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How to Destroy a Software Engineer

Retaining Software Developers is a significant challenge for teams. According to the Infragistics Reveal Survey, 37.5% of respondents expected difficulty finding developers in 2023. To retain talent, it's essential to understand the factors that lead to dissatisfaction. Too much focus can often be placed on the development of best practices. As managers, we must know how to make developers unhappy.Join me as I discuss antipatterns in management, development, testing and monitoring patterns that can prevent you from retaining excellent software engineers.

Carly Richmond
Carly RichmondElastic

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Thursday, May 8, 14:10-14:25
Gallery Hall
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Retaining Software Developers is a significant challenge for teams. According to the Infragistics Reveal Survey, 37.5% of respondents expected difficulty finding developers in 2023. To retain talent, it's essential to understand the factors that lead to dissatisfaction. Too much focus can often be placed on the development of best practices. As managers, we must know how to make developers unhappy.Join me as I discuss antipatterns in management, development, testing and monitoring patterns that can prevent you from retaining excellent software engineers.
management
antipatterns
dissatisfaction
retention
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Carly Richmond

Carly Richmond

Elastic

United Kingdom

Carly is a Developer Advocate and Manager at Elastic, based in London, UK. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years as a technologist at a large investment bank, specialising in front-end web development and agility. She is a UI developer who occasionally dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker, and a regular blogger.

She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.
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