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The Better Business Analysis 
Institute presence, the Better 

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Business Analysis Podcast with 
Benjamin Walsh. 

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Hi everybody, and welcome back 
to the Better Business Analysis 

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podcast with Benjamin Walsh, 
proudly brought to you by the 

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Better Business Analysis 
Institute. 

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And we're going to be continuing
along our BA Byte series, their 

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short summary points for BAS. 
And this week we are going to be

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talking about the evolution of 
BA in the context of AI. 

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That's right. 
AI will change the role of BA. 

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It will also change the role of 
lots of businesses and a lot of 

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different roles in the future. 
Last week, I was lucky enough to

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be interviewed about this with 
another panel of BAS, and I'll 

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be sharing that soon on LinkedIn
and you can have a listen. 

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But really, we were talking 
about how emerging technologies 

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like AI, things like Digital 
twin, things like XR are going 

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to change and evolve business 
analysis in the future. 

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And I want to take one of those 
areas, which is AI. 

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And I want to talk about some of
the summary points about how 

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that's going to change your job 
as ABA. 

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We have done a whole episode on 
this, but I want to get straight

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to the point for you as part of 
this BA bites about some actions

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that you can take right now. 
So the AI is a huge field. 

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However, generative AI, the 
ability to generate output based

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on natural language, the 
language we speak, has really 

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changed the world of AI 
accessibility. 

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And you as ABA need to start 
using these tools. 

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So in order for you to generate 
your specifications, fill in 

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templates to summarize meeting 
notes, in order for you to 

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consolidate feedback, in order 
for you to be clearer and 

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concise, I suggest that you use 
these tools today. 

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When I say use these tools, try 
and use a private version like a

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paid version where your data is 
not shared outside of your 

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organization. 
And so you can use tools like 

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copilot and private mode to do 
that paid check GBT or you can 

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use Gemini as long as you have a
subscription there. 

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You can use all of those tools 
for free if you generalize what 

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you're trying to achieve. 
But I do not feed any sensitive 

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information from your 
organization into these tools. 

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Just that's a top tip. 
Okay, so you can generate 

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documents, do all those things 
that I've just said. 

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I want you to start doing that 
today. 

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Start seeing how you can use 
prompt engineering. 

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So the ability to multi prompt 
through these tools to get the 

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up pump what you want and 
continuously sending back 

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information in a chat cycle so 
that it remembers what you've 

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already written and asked 
beforehand. 

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And so you want to give it as 
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And as you do that, you're 
actually learning how to do 

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prompt engineering properly. 
You can see what the responses 

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are, where you need to tweak 
your answers and there's an art 

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to it. 
And B, as will need will most 

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likely be coaching the 
organization in terms of how to 

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use these tools effectively. 
And you should get started on 

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that today. 
Now, what does that mean for 

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your role? 
Well, it means that if you can 

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generate a lot of documents and 
to be honest, you can probably 

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generate code and mock ups using
these tools in the development 

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delivery space. 
There may be less need to do 

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some of the traditional roles in
an agile development team or in 

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ABA role where you're writing 
detailed business role kind of 

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requirements or functional 
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There may be less of a need to 
for you to do some of the 

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documentation and ground work. 
And as a result, you may need to

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step up. 
And this talks to the point 

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around really looking more at 
the pre project work and the 

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high level requirements phase in
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So if you are not comfortable 
with doing high level 

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requirements and epic level 
requirements, then I suggest 

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that you also take the action to
get clearer on that and then 

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learn how to use those big 
requirements and break them down

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in terms of prompts that you can
feed into an AI tool. 

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So I'm not saying that's going 
to replace those jobs that 

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happen down in detail 
requirements with delivery, but 

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these tools will make it easier.
And I would say that in two to 

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five years, those steps from 
detail requirements down will be

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completely different and will be
much more automated to what you 

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do today. 
So that's your BA bite. 

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Your BA bite is to learn 
generative AI, start using these

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tools, starts using it to 
consolidate your work. 

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You're still following all the 
processes that you need to do in

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business analysis 5 wise 
requirements analysis, 

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workshopping all those skills. 
But your soft skills will be 

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more important and how you do 
the hard skills will become much

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more automated and streamlined. 
See you next week.