Trunk-Based Development: Your Pull Requests Are Still Too Big

Most teams don’t realize this, but their biggest bottleneck isn’t architecture, tech stack, or even legacy code. It’s pull requests. If you read about trunk-based development, you’ll see the same advice repeated everywhere: small changes, frequent merges, fast feedback. Sounds simple. Almost obvious. And yet — in reality — most teams are nowhere near that. I’ve personally seen pull requests sitting open for months. Not days. Not weeks. Months. At one point, we had a pull request in our team that