The PR that sat for nine days
Review latency is a product metric. Treat it like one.
Jonah Adeyemi · 9 min
We had a 400-line auth change with two comments and a thumbs-up from someone who had not run it. It merged on a Friday. Monday was a rollback.
A daily digest with risk flags — files touched, auth/payments paths, missing tests — would have made the stall visible. Slack did not.
If your “process” is a channel, you do not have a process. You have a hope.