On this episode, Brian Orlando and Om Patel sit down with Senior Test Engineer Michael Iglesias to discuss QA Engineering. 

0:00 Intro
0:11 QA Engineering vs QA Testing
2:23 QA Engineering Value vs Development Management's Ego
4:48 The Value of QA Automation
7:13 How Creativity Happens?
9:23 Collaboration & Creativity
11:51 Pragmatic Planning Approaches
15:20 Spike Work
18:16 Spike Work - A Real Example
19:56 One Benefit of PO at the Daily Scrum
23:42 This Segue was Slick
24:58 Continuous Education & Improvement
26:40 Learning: On Your Own Time
29:59 Learning Organizations
32:49 When the PO doesn't value Technical Work
38:05 When New Learning Happens
39:29 Solving Business Problems or Building Features
42:16 Real Stories of Product Mismanagement
47:50 Why do Critical Conversations Get Shut Down?
49:55 More Productive Conversations
53:36 Speak to Stakeholders in Their Own Language
56:29 The 20/80 Rule (Not the Good Kind)
1:00:18 Simplifying Complexity and Learning
1:02:11 Pushing for More Learning in Your Culture
1:06:16 Using Utilization to Benefit Learning
1:11:49 Utilization, Learning, and Middle-Management
1:15:56 Wrap-Up

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Agile Podcast E33 - QA Engineering with Michael Iglesias