Conducting Humane Code Reviews

📢 Cincinnati Software Craftsmanship welcomes Adrienne Tacke! 📢

💬 TALK DESCRIPTION 💬

Code reviews are a must in a proper development workflow, but what happens when performing or receiving one is as pleasant as getting a root canal? Instead of contributing meaningful suggestions, developers often use these reviews as an opportunity to rehash old arguments or show their “superiority”. From personal experience as a developer over the past 8 years to the stories my developer network shares, I know that code reviews can be a pain point for many development teams.

In this talk, I’ll describe the common mistakes we make while performing a code review and how it can cause unwanted side effects among a team and their codebase. I’ll also describe worthwhile solutions to these issues so that they are less likely to occur. By the end of this talk, dev teams should be able to conduct code reviews fairly, catch substantiated mistakes, make productive suggestions, and still like each other afterward!

👋 ABOUT ADRIENNE 👋

Currently a Senior Developer Advocate for MongoDB, Adrienne Tacke is also a Filipina software engineer, speaker, published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Cloud Development courses. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Cyberpunk 2077.

Follow Adrienne:
🦜 Twitter 🦉 https://twitter.com/adriennetacke
🔗 LinkedIn 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennetacke/
🌐 Website 🌐 https://www.adrienne.io/

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⚠ THIS MEETUP WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY ⚠

🕛 AGENDA 🕛
The meeting will be split between social and presentation periods. If you are interested in joining us for the social period, please connect to zoom. To join the presentation, hop onto twitch! ❤
All times are listed in Eastern Time Zone.

5:30-6:00: Pre-presentation networking/socialization on Zoom
6:00-7:00: Presentation on Twitch
7:00-7:30: Post-presentation discussion on Zoom

🎫 HOW TO ATTEND 🎫
Social times: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83852306107?pwd=SGVlSDkxempXR3ZXSDV3amdsVlRqZz09
Presentation: https://www.twitch.tv/softwarecraftsmanship