Businesses killed QA with bad org design, but with AI, is there potential for a near-term QA boom?

Join Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel as we discuss the systematic elimination of QA roles over the past decade and discuss why that decision is now backfiring.

That's right, with AI-generated code accelerating at breakneck speed and nobody to properly check or test it, Brian and Om argue that we might be heading toward a cliff of technical debt that will make skilled QA professionals more valuable than ever.

We discuss this potential future in five acts:
1. The Expensive Lie: Let's Dev Do the QA (until we lay them off as well)
2. The Coming QA Boom
3. When and Will Businesses Move Software Risk Upstream
4. Why Dev Didn't and AI Won't Replace QA
5. The Case for Human-In-The-Loop

Whether you're a QA professional worried about your career, a product manager who inherited testing responsibilities, or a leader considering QA cuts - this episode provides data-backed arguments for why the QA field may be on the verge of its biggest resurgence yet.

#QualityAssurance #AI #AgileLeadership

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023, Practitest State of Testing Report 2024, World Quality Report 2025 by Capgemini and Micro Focus, GitLab DevSecOps Report 2024, Google Code Review Quality Study 2023, McKinsey Technology Report 2025 (State of AI in 2025), Theo (t3.gg) video on the future of developer roles, Software Quality and Beer podcast by Bob Cruz and Matt Kubal (Checkpoint Technologies), Cooper Bench (AI coding benchmark study), W. Edwards Deming (quality management principles), Toyota Production System (quality ownership model), Eliyahu Goldratt (Theory of Constraints / systems feedback loops), Brook's Law, Melissa Perri, Playwright (test automation framework), Claude Code (Anthropic)

LINKS
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@arguingagile
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/362QvYORmtZRKAeTAE57v3
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agile-podcast/id1568557596

INTRO MUSIC
Toronto Is My Beat
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