Q: How often do your software development teams use peer review of source code by other team members?
Code review is one of the most fundamental practices within the open source community. While I'm delighted to see any form of peer review taking place, I'd encourage development teams to explore interteam review. An "outsider" is less likely to have the same assumptions (and thus potential errors) as a teammate. In addition, reviewing other teams' code can form the basis of a subtle form of knowledge sharing, raising awareness of how other teams may be solving problems similar to our own.
* Excerpted from "Adopting Open Source Software Techniques, Part III" (
) Agile Project & Product Management Executive Update,Vol. 12, No. 3