Code reviews through Pull/Merge Requests have become an essential process for the majority of tech companies. A recent study in 2022 unveils that 84%

How to accelerate your code reviews?

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2023-05-23 09:30:16

Code reviews through Pull/Merge Requests have become an essential process for the majority of tech companies. A recent study in 2022 unveils that 84% of the surveyed companies use it. Several years of practice allowed practitioners to take a step back on this methodology to identify pain points and how to overcome them. Besides, code reviews should always be continuously evaluated internally to improve how it’s done. In this post, we discuss how to add more flexibility to the Pull Request process and, thus, improve the delivery time.

The lead time for change is the amount of time it takes a commit to get into production, and is part of the 4-key metrics defined by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA). Engineering teams seek to optimize this delay to deliver sooner value to their customers. But before bringing solutions, let’s first define the problem:

The most often quoted obstructions to code reviews are the lack of human resources and the workload of engineers that don’t allow enough time for code reviews. A common reaction consists in adding more human resources to address the issue. Not so fast!