Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck

We are excited to host Pavel for our next Melb.NET event where we discuss PR Reviews and how we can reduce the bottleneck effect they have on our development velocity!

Agenda:

• 5:30pm arrival - Food and drinks provided in-person
• 6pm kickoff - Welcome & Introduction and few words from our Sponsors - 10 min
• 6:10pm - Session 1
• 6.45pm - Session 2

Session 1: Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck by Pavel Oborin

Pull request reviews are often the biggest bottleneck in software delivery, especially for distributed teams. What takes minutes to write can sit for days waiting for review, killing development velocity.

The open source world has solved this at scale. Major projects like Kubernetes, Rust, and React coordinate thousands of contributors with sophisticated review strategies that go far beyond traditional approaches.

This session explores proven techniques from leading OSS projects and how to adapt them for your teams: early design alignment, automated reviewer assignment, merge automation, cultural process shifts, velocity metrics, and modern workflow patterns.

You'll leave with practical strategies to eliminate review bottlenecks and measurably improve your team's delivery speed.

Session 2: How to achieve PR Flow in Messy Legacy Codebases by Alex Phomphoukhao

Exploring how we improved PR flow in a complex legacy .NET codebases. Covering metrics, workshop-driven changes, and how AI tools like GitHub Copilot and CodeRabbit helped reduce review load and speed up delivery.

Hosts:

• William Liebenberg - Microsoft .NET MVP | Consultant at Arinco
• Bron Thulke - Microsoft .NET MVP | CTO / Co-Founder at YouLi
• Bill Chesnut - Microsoft Azure MVP | Consultant at SixPivot
• Tama Waddell - Consultant at Arinco

Sponsors:
We have some amazing sponsors that help make this event possible:

• Arinco - Venue, Food and Drinks

Location:
In-Person at Arinco Melbourne.
Level 6 / 440 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD

🗣 Apply to speak now: https://bit.ly/melb-dotnet-cfp