Code reviews are one of the best ways we've found to improve code quality. If you're not familiar with it, then you should read up on it. There are plenty of

Code reviews are one of the best ways we've found to improve code quality. If you're not familiar with it, then you should read up on it. There are plenty of resources out there discussing code reviews (e.g. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2597076 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2597076 or Steve McConnell's "Code Complete".) Think about it this way. Code is as complicated writing. There is no successful media organization in the world that would publish a book or magazine without at least having one round of review, because hundreds of years of practice has shown that review improves the final product significantly. It's hubris to imagine that programmers are any better than authors.