Here are your picks for this week:
If it ain’t code, don’t fix it
Code reviews are rightfully seen as an essential, healthy practice. But adopting them is not free of challenges - bottlenecks, bike-shedding and personal conflicts to name a few.
So hats off to Google for sharing their code review process - full of great guidelines for both developers and code reviewers, all no doubt born out of experience. Dev teams could do worse that adopting these to save themselves a lot of trial and error.
Process makes perfect
As a startup grows from a few early adopters to dozens of customers, gathering and understanding user feedback becomes more complex. Intercom have a nice write-up on how to collect, qualify and process user feedback at scale - to better focus and act on what truly matters.
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Something to try
A simple and powerful idea to encourage quiet reflection: keep a leadership journal! I especially liked the 10 questions provided, great to trigger interesting thoughts.
As an alternative, or a complement, I recommend the 5-Minute Journal, which I have been using for several years. So simple it’s difficult not to stick with it!
I hope you enjoyed this. Have a great week
Fabrice
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Hand-picked by Fabrice, a UK-based consulting CTO. Let me know if you need help with your startup!