I think this is very important, not having a deadline can mean nothing ships and having a hard deadline I have seen quality and best practices slip due to press

I think this is very important, not having a deadline can mean nothing ships and having a hard deadline I have seen quality and best practices slip due to pressure to cut corners. Other general things that I’ve seen help. Code reviews should not be a rubber stamp, the reviewer should understand everything, there should be a degree of overlap of feature development between devs, end-to-end tests to check for regression can be highly useful once a project is if reasonable complexity.