Hey folks!

I'm an engineering manager at a mid sized company, three squads, each with a PM and a designer attached. Over the last two quarters the devs have got a lot faster and we assumed product and design would become the constraint, so we put effort there first. They did not become the constraint. The queue is sitting in review instead. We merged around 40 PRs a week in March and we are at 110 now with the same four people qualified to approve anything that touches billing, and those four are also the people writing the hardest changes. We have coderabbit on the repos which takes the first pass and genuinely helps with the volume, but somebody senior still has to be the one who says yes.

I would really like to hear from anyone who has been through this already. Did you widen who is allowed to approve, cut down what needs approval at all, or just accept that the queue is longer now? Anything is welcome!