A development process to ship features fast
> tests are great in the long run, but can slow you down in the short run.This is just silly, especially given you mention freezing releases and having an entire QA team go over the product.  It would be much faster to have no QA team, no freezing of releases and instead have a robust test infrastructure.It’s fine that this set of rules works for your company, you like them and are familiar with them, but that’s all this list is.