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title: "The Tarmac 10 Field Guide (free download)"
description: "A practical, printable checklist of the ten engineering practices we use to de-risk delivery on every project, with the questions to ask your own team."
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# The Tarmac 10 Field Guide (free download)

A practical, printable checklist of the ten engineering practices we use to de-risk delivery on every project, with the questions to ask your own team.

Tarmac · April 15, 2026 Engineering

We turned the Tarmac 10 (the engineering practices behind every one of our engagements) into a practical field guide your team can actually use. It’s the checklist we wish every software team had taped to the wall.

## What’s inside

-   The ten practices, each in plain language, with **why it matters** and **how to tell if you’re doing it**.
-   A one-page self-assessment to score your own delivery process from 1 to 5 on each practice.
-   The specific questions to ask an engineering team (yours or a vendor’s) to separate real quality from a good sales pitch.
-   A 30/60/90-day plan for closing the biggest gaps first.

## Who it’s for

Engineering leaders, founders, and product owners who want quality they can measure instead of quality they have to hope for, whether or not they ever work with us.

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