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Also known as: When is the right time to ask for early technical feedback?

I was recently having a remote conversation over Slack with a team member talking about their progress on building a new component for our Design System.

They were wondering when would be a good time to open an initial work in progress draft pull request for the new component and mentioned:

โ€œIโ€™m already going back and forth about the APIโ€

To this I exclaimed:

This is exactly the time to open a draft pull request!

That was only slightly accurate, the right time to start asking for feedback is as soon as you have a partially formed idea, as soon as it is fresh in your mind and you have a roughly clear vision of how to put that plan into motion.

The second best time to ask for feedback on a technical challenge is when you are at a crossroads and are debating between a few different paths and canโ€™t determine how to proceed.

Draft Pull Requests are an excellent format for receiving early feedback on any particular work, they can help provide context and start a discussion with reviewers on a complex change to better indicate where you plan on going, and they can also serve as a great way to collect early technical feedback.


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