Measuring Code Review Quality through PR Rejections
Today, I watched a new YouTube video* of someone arguing that you should measure code review quality, i.e., how good
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Productivity
How to successfully blog as a developer in 2020
In this post, I show you what I learned over the last 1,5 years about blogging. In those 1,5 years, I transitioned from a researcher and software engineering position at Microsoft to running an independent consultant and training business.
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Stacked pull requests: make code reviews faster, easier, and more effective
In this blog post, I will show you a technique, also referred to as stacked pull requests. This technique helps engineers split code changes into smaller and more coherent pieces. In return, reviewers have an easier time understanding the code under change, and therefore give better feedback in a shorter time.
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How much Quality should we Expect from Software?
Earlier this week, Medtronics bragged about one of their flagship products, a ventilator. Apparently, it depends on over one million lines
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How to Agree on a Coding Standard
Agreeing on a coding standard, and on best practices isn’t easy. Still, if you manage to agree on a coding
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Developing Conflict Competence
Recently, I interviewed a very kind and honest person – Suz Hinton. And in this interview, she shared with me
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The Code Review Quadrant
Learn which type of code review your team practices in order to understand which measurements are needed to get to fast and effective code reviews, so called power reviews.
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We are 10x engineers
Engineers come in all shapes and sizes. And so do 10x engineers. But what’s even more important is to build a team of diverse people, with diverse backgrounds, skills, strengths and weaknesses. This way we are prepares for the manifold challenges and tasks we have to solve in order for our companies to succeed.
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Developer productivity: How to be a happier and more productive developer?
Productive developers are likely to receive positive attention, in the form of external rewards such as promotions, a bonus or
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