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by bwest87 3072 days ago
Something the author doesn't bring up, but that we started doing about 9 months ago at my company, is synchronous reviews. Meaning the committer is on the phone or in person with the reviewer. It's great. We don't do it for all PR's, but anything medium sized or above, or even small one's if they involve critical logic. The way we usually do it is the committer walks through the changes with the reviewer. Often the committer will realize their own ways of improving the code. And with the added context, the reviewer can often provide better feedback. Plus the X factor of just two people talking who come up with ideas, improvements, etc. And half our team is remote, so this wasn't a natural outgrowth. We make it happen, but I think it's worth it.
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That sounds very similar to Rubber Duck Debugging.