We skip stuff like the temperature chamber all the time. The difference is that we know what we're skipping and why. This can easily make for a "10x" team: we a

We skip stuff like the temperature chamber all the time. The difference is that we know what we're skipping and why. This can easily make for a "10x" team: we are experienced enough to know what we can get away with, and experienced enough to know very quickly what happened when we fail to get away with it. (So it's often a pretty quick and direct fix! Well, that or a C-level "you declined this part of our proposal so now it's failing exactly like we told you it would so you're looking at this big of a redo, exactly like we told you...").