Time to first review

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Demo

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Insights

This chart can help you measure and answer questions like:

• Are Pull Requests reviewed promptly?
• Are code reviews a bottleneck?
• Are the recent process changes effective?
• Are there any recurring patterns or periodic fluctuations?

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What good looks like

Ideally, most small Pull Requests should be reviewed within hours of its creation. Team members should prioritize moving together as a team over their own individual work.

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How to improve

There are some strategies that can help your team’s time to first review.

• Visit this data during retrospectives and discuss options with the team.
• Strive for smaller Pull Requests.
• Automate the process as much as you can.
• Make it clear to the team that reviewing code is a priority.
• Simplify your reviewer assigning process.