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# Thesis notes

## Motivation
The thesis asks whether small teams review code faster when they use pull request templates. Earlier studies looked at large open source projects only.

## Related work
Three papers study review latency, and one studies reviewer fatigue. None of them separates teams below ten people, which is the gap this work fills.

## Methodology
We sample forty teams of three to nine people and collect their review data for six months. The sample size follows a power analysis with a medium effect and eighty percent power. Teams are matched by size and language, and the outcome is the median hours until the first review comment.

## Threats to validity
Teams that volunteer may care more about process. We control for tenure and project age but cannot rule out selection effects entirely.

## Results so far
The pilot with six teams shows a drop of about a third in time to first review. The number is too small to trust and is only used to check the pipeline.

## Writing plan
Draft the introduction in April, the methods in May, and leave June for the results and a full revision.