Purpose of Review
Align on desired review outcomes: correctness, clarity, maintainability, risk surfacing.
Reviewer Guidelines
Prioritize architectural feedback before micro style. Phrase comments as questions or rationale.
Author Responsibilities
Provide context: goal, scope, test plan, known trade-offs, follow-up risks.
Turnaround SLAs
Track median time-to-first-review & merge to prevent velocity drag.
Tooling
Templates, lint autofix, pre-commit tests & contextual diff bots reduce manual toil.
Continuous Improvement
Retrospect metrics monthly & highlight examples of exemplary reviews.