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Your Organization Wants Agentic AI. Here’s What Nobody’s Telling You About the Business Analysis Work Required.
The conversation in most leadership teams right now goes something like this: we want to deploy agentic AI, we want to move fast, and we want to see results in the next quarter. The technology teams are excited. The vendors are ready. The roadmap is set. What is...
Who’s Watching the AI? The Business Analyst’s New Role in Agentic Systems
Agentic AI is no longer a future concept. It is arriving in enterprise environments right now, and with it comes a question that most organizations have not answered well: who is responsible for making sure the AI does the right thing? The answer, more often than...
Beyond Faster: Why AI Co-Creation Is the Real Shift
Are you ready for co-creation? And, why this is the most important skill shift for many on project teams. Most conversations about AI are built around the same question: how can AI help do work faster? It is a reasonable question. It is also the wrong starting...
How to Build Entry Level BA Skills in an AI World
Entry level business analysts are entering the profession at a uniquely complicated moment. The tools are more powerful than ever. The learning curve has never been steeper. And the pressure to move fast exists in tension with the need to build real, durable judgment....
If You Think AI Can Replace Business Analysts, You Don’t Understand What BAs Actually Do
AI can produce requirements documents. Therefore, the argument goes, what is left for the BA to do? I want to engage with that question seriously, because it deserves a serious answer. Not a defensive one, not a cheerleading one, but an honest look at what business...
BAs Have Always Been the Bridge. But Nobody Told You the Bridge Just Got a Lot More Important.
We have been saying it for years. Business analysts are the bridge between business and technology. And honestly, it has always been true. BAs translate business needs into something delivery teams can act on. They sit in the middle and make sure the two sides...
The Human Skills That Will Define the Best BAs in the Age of AI
There is a lot of conversation in the BA community right now about the technical skills needed for AI. How to analyze agentic systems. How to write machine-readable requirements. How to think about deterministic versus probabilistic design. All of that matters, and I...
Hey BA: Who Are You Actually Writing That Spec For?
Here is a question I have been sitting with lately, and the more I think about it, the more I think it is one of the most important questions in the BA profession right now. When you write a requirements document or a feature spec, who is your audience? For most of BA...
You’re Using AI to Write Requirements. But Can AI Agents Actually Read Them?
Software delivery is changing quickly, and one of the biggest shifts isn't just that BAs are using AI to help write requirements. It's that AI is increasingly becoming one of the readers of those requirements. You have probably already started using AI to help draft...
You’re Busy, I Get It – The BA Time Trap Nobody’s Talking About
Most BAs I know are working harder than ever. Their calendars are full. Their task lists are long. They are producing artifacts, attending meetings, lots of meetings, and more meetings; facilitating reviews, and responding to an endless stream of requests from...