Business Analysts hold a quiet advantage in the age of Artificial Intelligence. We see an ever-growing list of AI tools and prompting techniques, but they all demand skills that Business Analysts already use every day and fall within their domain of expertise. The biggest adaptation required is from collaborating solely with human stakeholders and developers, to working also with AI agents.
Custom GPTs and Gemini Gems, which allow us to create custom AI assistants for specific business needs, are what perhaps gives us the clearest glimpse of what future projects may look like.
In the years ahead, working on a project may involve:
- Understanding the project’s mission, vision, goals and strategies
- Mapping out the skills required to finish the project
- Identifying existing AI assistants that have the required skills
- Creating and training new AI assistants to fill the skill gap
- Architecting a model that allows those assistants to work together and collectively develop the final solution
- Testing and verifying the solution
- Using the test results to further train the AI assistants
- Running the next iteration
- Re-testing, re-verifying and continuously improving in multiple iterations.
The key techniques required to accomplish the above are:
- Eliciting, clarifying and verifying requirements
- Specifying requirements
- Problem solving
- Process modelling
- Evaluating and recommending a solution
- Testing and verifying the solution
If you are a Business Analyst or have worked with one, you will recognise that all the above fall within Business Analysts’ area of expertise. Many non-BA professionals today already realise that they also need those capabilities to stay ahead. IRM Training, as a prominent business analysis training provider in Australia, has seen a sharp rise in professionals from other roles seeking business analysis training.
Those who have chosen Business Analysis as a job may have hit the career jackpot as it is one of the few jobs that are AI proof. For others, equipping yourselves with AI-ready skills will put you in an advantageous position, where you can quickly pivot and adapt as technologies evolve.
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