Next Gen BA Blog

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from too much work, but from being structurally removed from work that you know matters. A lot of business analysts are feeling that right now. And I want to name it clearly, because it is not being talked about...

Let me name something that a lot of business analysts are feeling right now but not saying out loud. Developers are getting the tools. They are getting AI-powered coding environments that are transforming how they work. They are getting access to AI systems that write...

This one is a little different. It is less about frameworks and more about something I see happening in the BA community that I think deserves an honest conversation. A lot of BAs right now are defending. Defending the requirements process. Defending the value of...

If you are a business analyst who has been handed a finished AI-generated solution and asked to validate it before go-live, you already know the feeling. It lands somewhere between disbelief and a kind of professional helplessness. You look at what has been built, you...

There is a conversation happening privately among business analysts right now that is not happening in articles, conference talks, or LinkedIn posts. It is happening in direct messages, in team lunches, in the conversations that happen after the meeting ends. It...

Everyone has been in these situations: you are waiting on a decision to move forward, the team is stuck on a decision, or, a decision gets made quickly in a room that did not include the right people, and two weeks later everyone is relitigating it. Either way, the...

In an AI-accelerated environment, the ability to make good decisions quickly has become one of the most valuable capabilities a BA can develop. Not reckless decisions. Not decisions made without analysis. Evidence-based decisions made with the right information, in...

An agentic AI project is a different category of work from a traditional software implementation. The technology is different, the risk profile is different, and the requirements work is different in ways that catch many teams off guard when they encounter it for the...

One of the most common things BAs describe when they start using AI tools is how much faster they can write user stories. What used to take an afternoon, or weeks, now takes an hour. A backlog that would have required a week of writing can be drafted in a day. The...

There is a persistent conversation happening in the business analysis community about whether requirements documents are dead. The people who say yes point to agile practices, AI-generated code, and the acceleration of build cycles. The people who say no point to...