Introduction

Alright, so you’ve worked through the workbook. You now know how to:

• assess your anxiety using the SUDS,

• decrease your physiological arousal using TIPP,

• challenge your biased thoughts using cognitive restructuring, and

• actively engage with code reviews using DEAR and GIVE.

Now what?

Well, first of all, nice work! This workbook had a lot of information to get through and required you to take the time to face your code review anxiety, which isn’t easy! To really super-charge this work, though, you’ll need to regularly practice all that you’ve learned during your code reviews.

Since it’s not the most convenient thing to work through the entire workbook over and over again, we’ve created a Mini Code Review Anxiety Toolkit. Think of this toolkit as a cheat sheet resource that reminds you to put everything you’ve learned into action at the exact moment in time that you need it.

You can bookmark the Toolkit here in GitBook, or use the PDF version we created for your convenience:

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Mini Code Review Anxiety Toolkit.pdf

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Save the PDF to your desktop, print it out and hang it somewhere near your monitor, or re-create it in a journal. Heck, you could even add some of the principles here - like the acting like a DEAR and reviewing to GIVE skills - to your code review templates in GitHub or GitLab so that the whole team keeps these top of mind.

Regardless of how you choose to incorporate the Toolkit into your workflow, it’s yours to use for your next code review and beyond!