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🎯 Bullseye Commits: the quiet wins your team should celebrate

September 27, 2025

There’s a pattern many teams miss 🌒:

an engineer understands the problem 💡, slices the work into small tasks 🪓, and ships code with almost nothing to fix 📦.

Not every commit is a bullseye—but when they are, they tend to have small to modest impact and get approved on the first try. 🥇 Celebrate them! 🥳

HOW TO SPOT A BULLSEYE COMMIT

- ⌛ Started and finished well before the deadline, with negligible churn

- 📏 Small-to-modest scope, focused impact

- 🕵️ Substantive code review (not rubber-stamping)

- ✅ Approved on the first pass

WHAT TO DO

-🧍‍♂️ Give a shout-out in stand-up or drop a quick note: “Saw that check-in—nice job!”

- 🍕 Invite repeat bullseye hitters to run a lunch & learn on their approach

- 🤝 Ask them to co-review or mentor on tricky PRs to spread the habit

Small, timely, well-reviewed commits compound into big outcomes.

Let’s make them visible—and repeatable. 💪

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