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When experts talk about multi-agent AI orchestration, the conversation almost always gravitates toward the technology. Which platform? Which agents? How do we connect them? How do we scale? These are real questions. But they are not the first questions. And until the...

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...

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...

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...

Entry-level Business Analysts are entering the profession at a remarkable time. They have access to tools, information, and learning resources that previous generations of BAs could only imagine. At the same time, organizations are still discovering how to help new...

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...

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 help draft...