Nobody Renegotiated Done - 11th SF Bay Area Meetup

The Test Tribe 11th SF Bay Area Meetup – Nobody Renegotiated Done: When Delivery Outruns the Process That Governs It

AI has made writing software dramatically cheaper and faster but the processes built around software delivery haven't necessarily changed with it. Sprint ceremonies, estimation practices, review workflows, and definitions of done can quickly become mismatched when the assumptions behind them no longer hold.

Join The Test Tribe's 11th SF Bay Area Meetup to explore what happens when AI-driven delivery outpaces the processes designed to govern it, and how engineering teams can identify which practices need to evolve without compromising the quality standards that still matter.

Event Details

• Date: 23 September 2026
• Time: 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM PDT
• Venue: 1631 N First St, San Jose, CA

Session – Nobody Renegotiated Done: When Delivery Outruns the Process That Governs It

Speaker: Sumedh Shirodkar

AI has changed the economics of software development. Code can now be generated at a pace that traditional delivery processes were never designed to handle but sprint ceremonies, estimation practices, review capacity, and Definition of Done often continue operating as if writing code is still the expensive part.
In this session, Sumedh Shirodkar will explore what starts to break when AI-driven delivery outpaces the processes around it. The discussion will look at why pull request review capacity can become the first constraint, why traditional velocity signals become less meaningful when generation becomes cheap, and how Definition of Done can quietly become a bottleneck as output volume increases.

How This Meetup Solves Your Problem

AI can increase development output, but increased output doesn't automatically mean increased delivery capacity. This meetup will help you:

• Understand why review capacity can become a constraint before test capacity and what that reveals about verification effort.
• Identify which traditional delivery and velocity signals become unreliable when the cost of code generation collapses.
• Learn what signals teams can pay attention to instead when measuring delivery effectiveness.
• Discover how to reopen the Definition of Done conversation with engineering leadership using evidence rather than escalation.
• Learn how to distinguish genuinely load-bearing quality criteria from processes that exist primarily because "that's how we've always done it."
• Think more critically about how QA and engineering processes need to evolve alongside AI-assisted development.

Why Show Up on 23 September?

• Because you'll explore what actually happens when development velocity changes faster than delivery practices.
• Because you'll gain a practical framework for identifying which quality and delivery practices need to evolve and which shouldn't.
• Because you'll hear perspectives from an engineering leader working directly with production AI applications, including RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, and MCP integrations.
• Because you'll connect with QA professionals, Quality Engineers, software engineers, engineering leaders, and technology practitioners from the SF Bay Area community.

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