Productivity – Dr. McKayla https://www.michaelagreiler.com Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:06:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 https://i2.wp.com/www.michaelagreiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Michaela-Greiler-Site-Identity-10.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Productivity – Dr. McKayla https://www.michaelagreiler.com 32 32 158113387 Measuring Code Review Quality through PR Rejections https://www.michaelagreiler.com/rejections-as-code-review-quality-metric/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rejections-as-code-review-quality-metric https://www.michaelagreiler.com/rejections-as-code-review-quality-metric/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:46:30 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=5294 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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]]> https://www.michaelagreiler.com/rejections-as-code-review-quality-metric/feed/ 2 5294 How to successfully blog as a developer in 2020 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/successfully-developer-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=successfully-developer-blog https://www.michaelagreiler.com/successfully-developer-blog/#respond Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:38:58 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=5258 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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]]> https://www.michaelagreiler.com/successfully-developer-blog/feed/ 0 5258 Stacked pull requests: make code reviews faster, easier, and more effective https://www.michaelagreiler.com/stacked-pull-requests/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stacked-pull-requests https://www.michaelagreiler.com/stacked-pull-requests/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:22:11 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=5000 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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]]> https://www.michaelagreiler.com/stacked-pull-requests/feed/ 11 5000 How much Quality should we Expect from Software? https://www.michaelagreiler.com/expect-quality-software/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=expect-quality-software https://www.michaelagreiler.com/expect-quality-software/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:34:51 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=4709 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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]]> https://www.michaelagreiler.com/expect-quality-software/feed/ 0 4709 How to Agree on a Coding Standard https://www.michaelagreiler.com/creating-coding-standard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creating-coding-standard https://www.michaelagreiler.com/creating-coding-standard/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:19:30 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=3782 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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]]> https://www.michaelagreiler.com/creating-coding-standard/feed/ 2 3782 Developing Conflict Competence https://www.michaelagreiler.com/developing-conflict-competence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=developing-conflict-competence https://www.michaelagreiler.com/developing-conflict-competence/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:09:41 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=3756 Recently, I interviewed a very kind and honest person – Suz Hinton. And in this interview, she shared with me

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]]> https://www.michaelagreiler.com/developing-conflict-competence/feed/ 2 3756 The Code Review Quadrant https://www.michaelagreiler.com/code-review-quadrant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=code-review-quadrant https://www.michaelagreiler.com/code-review-quadrant/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:48:44 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=3692 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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]]> https://www.michaelagreiler.com/code-review-quadrant/feed/ 0 3692 We are 10x engineers https://www.michaelagreiler.com/we-are-10x-engineers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-are-10x-engineers https://www.michaelagreiler.com/we-are-10x-engineers/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:06:03 +0000 https://www.michaelagreiler.com/?p=2616 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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