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Measuring Code Review Quality through PR Rejections

November 26, 2020December 25, 2021 Dr. Michaela Greiler 2 Comments

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 Speaking 

How to successfully blog as a developer in 2020

November 13, 2020January 6, 2021 Dr. Michaela Greiler 0 Comments

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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Code reviews Productivity 

Stacked pull requests: make code reviews faster, easier, and more effective

September 23, 2020January 12, 2023 Dr. Michaela Greiler 11 Comments

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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Code reviews Productivity Software Quality Testing 

How much Quality should we Expect from Software?

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 Dr. Michaela Greiler 0 Comments

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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Code reviews Productivity 

How to Agree on a Coding Standard

February 18, 2020January 15, 2023 Dr. Michaela Greiler 2 Comments

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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Code reviews Productivity 

Developing Conflict Competence

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 Dr. Michaela Greiler 2 Comments

Recently, I interviewed a very kind and honest person – Suz Hinton. And in this interview, she shared with me

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Code reviews Productivity 

The Code Review Quadrant

January 14, 2020April 21, 2020 Dr. Michaela Greiler 0 Comments

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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Productivity Software Engineering Reads 

We are 10x engineers

July 18, 2019October 11, 2019 Dr. Michaela Greiler 0 Comments

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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Productivity 

Developer productivity: How to be a happier and more productive developer?

May 30, 2019July 10, 2019 Dr. Michaela Greiler 0 Comments

Productive developers are likely to receive positive attention, in the form of external rewards such as promotions, a bonus or

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