#159 - Leveling Up Your Code Reviews from 'Good Enough' to Great - Adrienne Tacke

Tech Lead Journal

“A lot of developers tie their self-worth to their code. Being able to let go of your ego and understanding the feedback is based on the code, and it has nothing to do with anything about me. It’s just the code.”

Adrienne Tacke is a software engineer, keynote speaker, and the author of the upcoming book “Looks Good To Me”.

In this episode, we discuss code reviews and why it is an essential part of the software development process. Adrienne discusses the importance and benefits of code review, the common code review workflow and the different roles involved, how to provide effective code review comments, and why we should leverage on code review tools and automation. She also provides tips on how to speed up our code review turnaround time.

Listen out for:

• Career Journey - [00:03:31]
• Looks Good to Me (LGTM) - [00:09:05]
• Code Review Story - [00:12:24]
• Importance of Code Review - [00:15:38]
• Code Review Benefits - [00:20:27]
• Code Review Role: Author - [00:25:50]
• Code Review Role: Reviewer - [00:32:42]
• Code Review Role: The Team - [00:38:41]
• Code Review Tools & Automation - [00:45:53]
• Effective Code Review Comments - [00:51:44]
• Code Review Turnaround - [00:57:45]
• 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [01:04:56]

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Adrienne Tacke’s Bio
Adrienne is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, author of the best-selling book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who’s reached over 65,000 learners with her courses (a number she’ll likely surpass when you read this). She is writing Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews, a labor of love that she hopes will improve code reviews everywhere. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

Follow Adrienne:

• LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/adriennetacke
• Twitter / X – @AdrienneTacke
• Instagram – @adriennetacke
• Website – adrienne.io

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