Project background and goalsThe team behind a lightweight productivity app consisted of five engineers, a product manager, and a part‑time d

Project background and goalsThe team behind a lightweight productivity app consisted of five engineers, a product manager, and a part‑time designer. Their codebase grew to 30 k lines in six months, and they began to experience merge conflicts, inconsistent style, and missed bugs that slipped into production. The founders wanted a lightweight yet disciplined approach that would improve code quality without slowing down the rapid release cadence that their early users expected.Rolling out the frameworkThe group evaluated several tools and settled on a combination of GitHub pull requests, a linting plugin, and a lightweight checklist stored in the repository. They...