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Are you working in the software/tech industry? Do you manage a team (or teams) of software developers? Have you ever wonder how you can be a better engineering manager? Come join this group to meet with other software managers, share your experience and resources, discuss about your challenges and learn from one another. We'll be discussing topics in engineering leadership, productivity, culture, scaling development teams and more.
Engineering Leadership Collective (previously known as Vancouver Software Development Managers) welcomes you to this community!
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See all- Push, Don’t Pull: Putting Code Reviews Back in MotionLink visible for attendees
Summary
Code reviews are supposed to help teams ship better code, faster—but what happens when the review process itself becomes the bottleneck?As our team grew, our review culture—where “everyone could review everything"—began to break down. Reviews took too long, requests piled up, and a few developers bore the brunt of the load. PRs sat idle for hours—or days—and developers started combining changes into large, hard-to-review batches just to move forward.
In this talk, I’ll walk through how we reimagined our code review process by shifting from a reactive, pull-based model to a proactive, team-owned, push-based one. We embedded review responsiveness into our culture, emphasized team-wide ownership, and built a custom Slack app to streamline coordination and surface review work in real time.
About the Speaker
Michael Herrmann is the Director of Engineering at Lumen5, where he's been since its early days in 2017. He started out as a full-stack engineer, later specializing in web graphics, and for the past few years, he's led the video engine team. Today, he's proud to be growing into the company’s first Director of Engineering. He's passionate about technology, love collaborating with his incredible colleagues, and enjoy exploring the outdoors here in the Pacific Northwest.Agenda:
5:00 - 5:15pm Welcoming + Social (small groups in breakout rooms)
5:15 - 6:25pm - Talk + Q&A
6:25 - 6:30p.m. - Wrap upPlease note that this zoom meeting is password-protected. RSVP will end 12pm the day of the Meetup event. The zoom info will be sent to you (through Meetup) after the RSVP has closed - please check your email. Please join the zoom link with your real name.
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