Small Pull Requests Keep Flow Moving
Apply Kanban flow thinking to keep pull requests small enough to review and merge predictably.
The reframe: a pull request is work in progress. Kanban asks a team to define its workflow, control WIP, and actively manage items from started to finished. In GitHub, a pull request is one of those items. It is not done when the author pushes code; it is done when the team can safely merge it. That distinction changes how you size work. Large PRs hide queues A 1,900-line PR may look like one item on a board, but it often contains many decisions: architecture, behavior, tests, migration, cleanup, and copy. Reviewers cannot process all of those with equal attention.…
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