Quality
Small, tested, reviewed changes are the unit of work. Defects get caught before they reach your users, not after.
The Tarmac 10
Quality isn’t a promise. It’s our process.
The Tarmac 10 is a proven set of engineering practices that de-risk delivery at every stage, from the first branch to the daily status email. Ten concrete disciplines, followed by every Tarmac team, so the quality you are paying for is something you can actually verify.
The shape of it
Ten practices, five things you feel
The ten practices are the mechanics. Day to day, they add up to five outcomes that show up in your product and in how it feels to work with us.
Speed
Automation and short feedback loops keep the team moving fast without the rework that slows most projects down.
Communication
You always know what shipped, what is next, and where the risk sits. No surprises, no black box.
Transparency
Honest reporting and shared ownership. When something is hard, you hear it early and in plain language.
Process
The same disciplined practices on every engagement, so quality does not depend on who happens to be on the team.
The main event
The ten practices, in full
This is the whole system. Each practice is small on its own. Together they are why our teams ship quickly and keep shipping cleanly, year after year.
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Single-purpose branches
Every branch does one thing, so changes stay small and easy to reason about. Small changes are faster to review, safer to merge, and simpler to roll back if needed.
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Common code style
A shared, automated style across the codebase means engineers read the code as one voice, not ten. Reviews focus on logic and design instead of formatting debates.
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Mandatory automated tests at every stage
Tests run at each step of the pipeline, from local commit to deploy. Regressions are caught the moment they appear, while they are still cheap to fix.
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Continuous integration
Work merges into a shared main line many times a day, verified by the full test suite. Integration problems surface early instead of piling up into a painful merge later.
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Pull requests are a shared responsibility
A pull request belongs to the team, not just its author. Getting it reviewed, tested, and merged is everyone’s job, which keeps work flowing and knowledge spread.
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Mandatory internal & external peer reviews
Every change is reviewed inside the team and by your engineers. Two independent sets of eyes raise quality and keep your side fully in the loop on what is being built.
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Code repository hygiene
A clean history, clear commits, and a tidy branch structure keep the repository readable for years. New engineers ramp quickly and no one fears touching old code.
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Continuous delivery
Software is always in a releasable state and deploys are automated and repeatable. You can ship on your schedule with confidence, not hold your breath for a big-bang release.
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Daily status emails
A written summary every day covering what shipped, what is next, and any blockers. You have a clear record and never have to ask where things stand.
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Daily stand-ups
A short daily sync keeps the team and your stakeholders aligned, surfaces risk fast, and makes sure priorities stay in step with your business.
Why it compounds
Discipline makes a team faster, not slower
It is tempting to think process is a tax on speed. The opposite is true over any horizon that matters.
- Small, tested, reviewed changes almost never break in ways that cost days to unwind.
- A clean repository and shared style mean new engineers are productive in days, not weeks.
- Continuous integration and delivery turn releases from an event into a non-event.
- Because quality is caught early, the team spends its time building, not firefighting.
Skin in the game
Process you can hold us to
The Tarmac 10 only means something if we are accountable to it. We are.
30 days
Contracts are cancellable on 30 days’ notice. We keep your business by earning it, every month.
Honest
Reporting in plain language. When something is hard or late, you hear it early, not at the deadline.
85%
Of our new work comes from referrals. The quality process is why clients send us the next team.
5.0
Across 7 verified reviews on Clutch. Independent proof, not our own marketing.
Questions, answered
The Tarmac 10 FAQ
What is the Tarmac 10?
The Tarmac 10 is our engineering quality process: ten concrete practices that every Tarmac team follows, covering how we branch, test, review, integrate, ship, and report. They roll up into five themes, Quality, Speed, Communication, Transparency, and Process. The point is simple: quality you can verify at every stage, not a promise you have to take on faith.
How is this different from just saying you write quality code?
Anyone can claim quality. The Tarmac 10 is specific and observable. You can see the single-purpose branches, the tests running in CI, the peer reviews your engineers take part in, the continuous delivery pipeline, and the daily status. If a practice is being followed, there is evidence of it in the repository and in your inbox.
Do you apply all 10 on every project?
Yes, the Tarmac 10 is our default way of working on every engagement. We adapt the specifics to your stack and constraints, for example the exact CI tooling or review workflow, but the ten practices are the baseline that keeps delivery consistent regardless of who is on the team.
Can we see it in action?
Yes. You can see the outcomes across our case studies in the work section, and we publish a free field guide that walks through each of the ten practices with the reasoning behind them. Read it at /resources/tarmac-10-field-guide.
Go deeper: read the Tarmac 10 explained or grab the free Tarmac 10 field guide.
Want a team that ships like this?
Bring us your project. We will bring a senior team that runs the Tarmac 10 from day one, so the quality is built in, not bolted on.