Attracting, Motivating and Retaining Software Engineers
June 7, 2001
Location:
The June Twin-SPIN program was on "Attracting, Motivating and Retaining
Software Engineers".
What motivates software engineers in their work? How can we increase
the potential for attracting and retaining software engineers? These are
questions that prompted a research project done by Diane Maki, our guest
speaker for the June Twin SPIN meeting. Diane will describe how she conducted
her research and talk about how the research findings can be put into practice.
About the Speaker:
Diane Maki is president of Strategic People Development, LLC,
which specializes in guiding organizations through change. She has over
15 years of managerial experience and ten years of leading process improvement
teams through implementation of major changes in the way they do their
work.
Diane has an MBA with a management focus from the University of St.
Thomas and a PhD in Education from the University of Minnesota with a specialization
in Human Resource Development. She has taught systems thinking and research
methods at the university graduate level.
