Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week.The volume of requested reviews kept growing, and six months later there was a one to two week delay between requesting a reviewand receiving feedback.A year after that the process was disbanded due to lack of bandwidth to process all the incoming sp...
Published on April 03, 2023 05:00