Keeping People
This slide set didn't touch on the most important factor for me: Your Manager.<p>Having a micromanaging || incompetent || tyrannical || condescending || squeezing (as in trying to get the last drop out of you) manager is the quickest way to show me the door.<p>(Now GitHub from what I understand is a flat structure with no "managers" so I see why this wouldn't be in their slide deck, but it's a huge part of the equation for most organizations)<p>And now for some other points<p><i>>"Not being forced to make poor product decisions"</i><p>IMO, this happens often when you're placed under a manager who (a) is way too optimistic about development time/resources needed, or (b) knows that he's squeezing, but wants to get more done with little headcount in order to help his way up the foodchain (a friend was victim to this and it was terrible to see).<p>Dear managers: please give us enough people and time to execute properly. We really don't want to ship a half baked product either.