A few jobs ago I put a PR in a few days into our two-week sprint. Our team of purportedly full-stack developers was actually a team of two front-end and seven back-end developers which meant that the Jira tasks were written such that tasks in the same sprint were all interdependent on one another. This always resulted in long cycle times and a mad rush to get everything merged the day before sprint review. This was a bit painful as our team lead was obsessed with Git commit history and required branches to be rebased onto the main branch, so every PR that got merged ahead of yours meant that you had to immediately jump in and rebase yours to make it eligible for review again.
The PR that I put in before everybody else's was summarily ignored because everybody was busy getting their own stuff in. I spent cram day rebasing my PR at least a half-dozen times as commits flew into the main branch. A few minutes before cut-off I asked in a team call if I could get a review; my team lead told me that there was no time and that it would have to wait.
Needless to say I've since found a team that does the opposite (reviews each others' code in a timely and constructive manner). I really enjoy working with people that care about delivering value and helping others... it's vastly improved my job satisfaction.
Agreed. In my opinion, just goes for show that you need a good team organization/culture more than another tool.
While I'm sure a lot of people will find this tool useful, I believe it will also help disfunctional teams last longer, which just means that the real problems (like, why people don't review code in timely fashion) will take longer to resolve.
As always, just my two cents based on my experience :)
The PR that I put in before everybody else's was summarily ignored because everybody was busy getting their own stuff in. I spent cram day rebasing my PR at least a half-dozen times as commits flew into the main branch. A few minutes before cut-off I asked in a team call if I could get a review; my team lead told me that there was no time and that it would have to wait.
Needless to say I've since found a team that does the opposite (reviews each others' code in a timely and constructive manner). I really enjoy working with people that care about delivering value and helping others... it's vastly improved my job satisfaction.