How to reduce your cycle time and code review time?

Optimizing cycle time is crucial for reducing code review time, improving overall productivity, and maintaining a healthy codebase. Key factors influencing cycle time include technical debt, context switching, and work-in-progress levels. By understanding and optimizing cycle time, teams can deliver faster, be more flexible, require fewer changes during reviews, reduce work-in-progress, and ultimately strengthen their codebase. To shorten review time, limit the size of pull requests, set reminders on open pull requests, ensure completed reviews are merged promptly, and reduce team workload. Implementing best practices such as automating basic tasks, breaking work into smaller components, analyzing component impact, and testing communication tools can further enhance code review efficiency.