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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
