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The Most Successful Software Projects Have One Thing In Common: A Clear Project Purpose Statement

May 25, 2023 · Dan Sheetz

A project purpose statement keeps your software development project in scope and makes your end goal clear. Learn the components of an effective statement.

How to Choose the Right Software Development Agency

May 18, 2023 · Dan Sheetz

Streamline the process of finding the right software development agency to build your web app. Our guide covers the four factors that matter and three that don’t.

Encapsulating Polymorphism

May 5, 2023 · Andrew Morgan

Polymorphic relationships can simplify our code, helping us eliminate conditionals and encapsulate the differences between related models.

10 Tips for Facilitating a Project Retrospective

Apr 21, 2023 · Jeanne Henry

At Tighten, when a project is over, we like to hold a project retrospective discussion. Curious how we run them? Take a peak at our 10 tips to help you facilitate your next project-ending retrospective.

How We Help Our Developers Get More Done in 4 Days Than Most Do in 5

Apr 11, 2023 · Matt Stauffer

Our take on the 4 day work week is called 20% Time. Learn how it increases the quality of our work and benefits your team’s software development project.

Building a Web App for Your Nonprofit Without an Internal Team?

Keep These Three Factors in Mind

Mar 28, 2023 · Dan Sheetz

So you want to build a web app? For nonprofits without internal dev teams, there are special considerations that make both the process of choosing a development team and the development process itself more complex.

Automated Refactoring With Rector

Mar 24, 2023 · Anthony Clark

Learn how Rector, a tool for programmatically refactoring PHP code, can help you keep your codebase clean and consistent—no matter who’s working on it.

Announcing Duster, a Code Linter and Fixer for Laravel

Mar 8, 2023 · Matt Stauffer, Anthony Clark

At Tighten, we’ve long believed that individual programmers shouldn’t waste their time worrying about code formatting. Early in our history, Tighten alum Adam Wathan saw Matt wasting time reviewing code style issues and built an entire CI tool,...

Turn Your Boss from Enemy to Ally in Your Battle Against Technical Debt

Mar 6, 2023 · Dan Sheetz

Tech debt has serious consequences if left unchecked. If reducing technical debt isn’t a priority for your boss, here are 4 arguments to get their buy-in.

Kill Switches: Interrupting Long-Running Processes

Feb 24, 2023 · Tony Messias

A kill switch—sometimes known as a “Dead Man’s Switch”—is a type of safety mechanism common in machinery that interrupts a process in the event of an...

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