# kaal:claim:3995709-001

**Claim.** Modern code review imposes substantial hidden costs because developers spend an average of six hours per week reviewing others' changes and are forced to switch away from their own work, creating an opportunity cost on project development.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- modern code review in industry and open source settings

**Source quote.**

> Developers spend a significant amount of time reviewing the changes of others – an average of 6 hours per week.11 Not only is this a significant amount of time, it also requires an opportunity cost on project development as developers are forced to switch away from their current work.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards* (2021), Background, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

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**Topics.** open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** code-review, opportunity-cost, developer-productivity, software-quality

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-001

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