Fast & Effective Code Reviews: 1-Day Workshop AMERICAS 1020

In this interactive and hands-on workshop, you learn all you need to know how to get to fast, yet effective code reviews, as well as how to give respectful code review feedback and handle conflict.

The workshop shows you the best practices and latest research that helps to speed up code review turn-around times while increasing feedback quality.

Topics

• How does code reviews speed impact reviews quality
• How to increase code review speed
• How to increase feedback quality
• Latest code review research and best practices
• How do Google, Microsoft, Facebook review code
• Respectful, constructive code review feedback
• Positively resolving conflict using Non-Violent Communication

About Dr. Michaela Greiler

With a Ph.D. from the Delft University of Technology in Software Engineering and six years of experience improving software development processes at Microsoft, Dr. Michaela Greiler possesses both, thorough theoretical knowledge and extensive industry experience.

Over the last years, she conducted multiple large scale studies on code reviews, authored several articles in high-ranked scientific publications, and lead product teams to a more effective and efficient code review process. Her passion is to enable engineers to experience friction-less processes and overcome bottlenecks.

You can find out more about her work at michaelagreiler.com

Date and Time

This workshop takes place on October 27, 2020, from 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM Eastern Time with a 1-hour break mid-way (click here for timezones).

What people say about it

"Perfect mix of theory, background, and practical. This is hard to get right!" (Dave, Senior software engineer)

"The workshop was really interesting and I learned a lot about improving communication regarding code reviews." (Nina, Software architect)

"Michaela is a great communicator and expert on the topic! I enjoyed the workshop in general, especially provided examples of good and poor code review feedback. If you are interested or want to know more about code reviews best practices I’d definitely recommend her!" (Vasily Belolapotkov, Full-stack developer)

"Code-reviews and their expected results are very subjective. Putting them into a valuable and dignified context for all participants can be difficult. This workshop offers actionable ideas and principles that can help improve them for your team and yourself."  (Jakob Oberhummer, Backend-engineer)

Upcoming Workshops

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