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Troubleshoot delays with our Code Review Analytics tool

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Chris Ward
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718
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English
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Summary

Modern software development is characterized by rapid iteration and deployment, facilitated by continuous testing, building, and deployment processes, as well as containerization, allowing teams to experiment without disrupting entire applications. However, this speed can obscure the importance of ensuring changes are valuable to customers and the business. Value Stream Analytics, informed by lean principles, helps teams optimize the delivery of value from ideation to production impact. GitLab's Value Stream Analytics, available since version 12.3, provides real-time insights without complex integrations, tracking the development cycle's stages, from issue scheduling to production deployment. Notably, if code review delays are identified as a bottleneck, GitLab offers Code Review Analytics, introduced in version 12.7, to analyze and address these delays by highlighting aged merge requests, encouraging completion of in-process work, and identifying potential areas for team improvement. This tool allows teams to debug issues such as complex code, lack of comments, or insufficient team support to enhance review efficiency. Improvements are ongoing, and user feedback is encouraged to refine these analytics further.

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