一句话：提出结构化自动化的设计评审方案，将 Google 设计文档审批中位时间缩短 25%。
设计评审是软件开发生命周期的重要早期阶段，利益相关者借此讨论设计可行性、发现代价高昂的错误与不一致之处。为提升开发速度，设计负责人需要尽快获得审批。本文介绍 Google 工程设计中设计评审的典型流程，并提出一种新颖、结构化且自动化的解决方案以缩短评审周期。作者基于四年内 41,030 名用户撰写的 141,652 份已批准文档数据，发现该方案使审批中位时间减少 25%，持续使用时收益更明显。文章还给出定性数据以证明方案成功，讨论影响评审延迟的因素，提出应对策略，并分享使用经验。
Design review is an important initial phase of the software development life-cycle where stakeholders gain and discuss early insights into the design's viability, discover potentially costly mistakes, and identify inconsistencies and inadequacies. For improved development velocity, it is important that design owners get their designs approved as Quickly as possible. In this paper, we discuss how engineering design reviews are typically conducted at Google, and propose a novel, structured, automated solution to improve design review velocity. Based on data collected on 141,652 approved documents authored by 41,030 users over four years, we show that our proposed solution decreases median time-to-approval by 25%, and provides further gains when used consistently. We also provide qualitative data to demonstrate our solution's success, discuss factors that impact design review latency, propose strategies to tackle them, and share lessons learned from the usage of our solution.