016. Leading Code Reviews

Unlocking the power of code reviews to unblock your team.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a technical leader walks into a code review, and everyone's productivity grinds to a halt. Without realizing it, and with the best of intentions, many technical leaders become the bottleneck when it comes to reviewing their team's code.

In this edition, we'll discuss some best practices that you can adopt to streamline your code review process and make it more productive.

You should not be doing code reviews

Hot take alert: you, as a technical leader, should not be doing code reviews yourself. Or only very rarely. Why?