&gt;This post concedes that code reviews are better for the more fluffy ends -- teamwork, openness, social recognition, but given their high costs, I&#x27;d rather achieve even these soft goals in other ways than to impede my team&#x27;s delivery potential.<p>What techniques have you found effective for improving the soft goals in the context of software (genuinely curious)? Are we talking more conventional management&#x2F;business concepts or something a bit more loosely defined?