| Activity 31 | Code Review |
A form of peer review in which code is incrementally inspected with an eye toward architectural concerns as the code is developed. Code review is a fantastic practice that every team should do anyway. Extending code reviews to include architectural concerns makes them even more powerful.
Incrementally inspecting code as the architecture manifests helps fight architectural rot by keeping tabs on the system’s evolution relative to the planned design. Reviews are also a great time to identify design inflection points that emerge during development. Such inflection points may require further analysis.
Every review presents a potential coaching opportunity. Watch out for synchronization mismatches in mental models so you can ...
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