Peer reviews either sandbag or propel Agile development

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Patrick Londa posted interesting article on topic of peer review process and its impact on Agile success. Working on a fast-moving Agile team, one needs to continually build consensus so that there is not a communication backlog.

In Agile environment software releases are becoming more frequent. If you are not able to speed up your peer review cycles in tandem, you may start to sacrifice quality to hit deadlines.

Your key takeaways from this article:

  • A team’s peer review process is critical to their agile success
  • There are three attributes at the heart of a structured peer review process
  • Review transparency is crucial in bringing agile to the organization-level
  • How to establish clear and living communication expectations
  • How to select review metrics that enable meaningful process improvement

If you add rigor and structure to your process, your team will, to some degree, adopt the behaviors that you are emphasizing. Insightful article, with some great advice. Recommended!

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