Well, not YOU, of course. YOUR team’s code reviews, I’m sure, are pleasant, productive engagements where everybody leaves feeling good about the results. They happen early and regularly in the development process, the goal of the review is well understood, and you wouldn’t dream of shipping a line of code that hadn’t been through your review process. Your team loves doing them, and you don’t worry about who does the review because you’ve got a consistent standard that your whole team agrees with. You’re just reading this article because there’s this other team in the building that you think would benefit from reading it, and you’re going to forward it to them when you’re done reading.

I’m with you. Personally, I’ve never sat around a meeting table with 15 other developers, Read the rest of this entry »