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Business Analysis Podcast with Benjamin Walsh.
Hi everybody, and welcome back to the Better Business Analysis
podcast with Benjamin Walsh, proudly brought to you by the
Better Business Analysis Institute.
And we're going to be continuing along our BA Byte series, their
short summary points for BAS. And this week we are going to be
talking about the evolution of BA in the context of AI.
That's right. AI will change the role of BA.
It will also change the role of lots of businesses and a lot of
different roles in the future. Last week, I was lucky enough to
be interviewed about this with another panel of BAS, and I'll
be sharing that soon on LinkedIn and you can have a listen.
But really, we were talking about how emerging technologies
like AI, things like Digital twin, things like XR are going
to change and evolve business analysis in the future.
And I want to take one of those areas, which is AI.
And I want to talk about some of the summary points about how
that's going to change your job as ABA.
We have done a whole episode on this, but I want to get straight
to the point for you as part of this BA bites about some actions
that you can take right now. So the AI is a huge field.
However, generative AI, the ability to generate output based
on natural language, the language we speak, has really
changed the world of AI accessibility.
And you as ABA need to start using these tools.
So in order for you to generate your specifications, fill in
templates to summarize meeting notes, in order for you to
consolidate feedback, in order for you to be clearer and
concise, I suggest that you use these tools today.
When I say use these tools, try and use a private version like a
paid version where your data is not shared outside of your
organization. And so you can use tools like
copilot and private mode to do that paid check GBT or you can
use Gemini as long as you have a subscription there.
You can use all of those tools for free if you generalize what
you're trying to achieve. But I do not feed any sensitive
information from your organization into these tools.
Just that's a top tip. Okay, so you can generate
documents, do all those things that I've just said.
I want you to start doing that today.
Start seeing how you can use prompt engineering.
So the ability to multi prompt through these tools to get the
up pump what you want and continuously sending back
information in a chat cycle so that it remembers what you've
already written and asked beforehand.
And so you want to give it as much context.
And as you do that, you're actually learning how to do
prompt engineering properly. You can see what the responses
are, where you need to tweak your answers and there's an art
to it. And B, as will need will most
likely be coaching the organization in terms of how to
use these tools effectively. And you should get started on
that today. Now, what does that mean for
your role? Well, it means that if you can
generate a lot of documents and to be honest, you can probably
generate code and mock ups using these tools in the development
delivery space. There may be less need to do
some of the traditional roles in an agile development team or in
ABA role where you're writing detailed business role kind of
requirements or functional requirements.
There may be less of a need to for you to do some of the
documentation and ground work. And as a result, you may need to
step up. And this talks to the point
around really looking more at the pre project work and the
high level requirements phase in your role.
So if you are not comfortable with doing high level
requirements and epic level requirements, then I suggest
that you also take the action to get clearer on that and then
learn how to use those big requirements and break them down
in terms of prompts that you can feed into an AI tool.
So I'm not saying that's going to replace those jobs that
happen down in detail requirements with delivery, but
these tools will make it easier. And I would say that in two to
five years, those steps from detail requirements down will be
completely different and will be much more automated to what you
do today. So that's your BA bite.
Your BA bite is to learn generative AI, start using these
tools, starts using it to consolidate your work.
You're still following all the processes that you need to do in
business analysis 5 wise requirements analysis,
workshopping all those skills. But your soft skills will be
more important and how you do the hard skills will become much
more automated and streamlined. See you next week.