Hello Devs 👋
When teams talk about engineering metrics, the conversation usually moves toward speed. We often look at things like pull request turnaround time, lead time, deployment frequency, and how quickly changes move through the system.
These are useful metrics because they tell us how efficiently work is flowing through the development process. But after spending time on larger projects and working across different teams, I started noticing that speed alone doesn't always tell the full story.
I've seen teams merge pull requests quickly and still spend a lot of time later dealing with repeated issues, hotfixes, and bugs that somehow escaped review. I've also seen teams with slower review cycles that ended up having fewer production issues because they consistently caught missing pieces earlier.
That made me think about whether we sometimes focus too much on how fast reviews move and not enough on whether reviews are actually helping improve code quality.
