SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST | REA GROUP
Jon Hyland
Jon Hyland has a Masters in Business Systems, and is a CBAP-certified Senior Business Analyst with over 15 years of experience across multiple business domains, organisations and delivery models.
He gets equal parts joy and terror from working at the boundary between data and consumer-facing digital experiences, and worries that androids have started dreaming of electric sheep without us noticing.
Presentation: Planning an AI-Aware Business Analysis Approach
AI isn’t replacing BA’s just yet – BA’s who can use AI effectively might replace those who can’t, though.
Up until now, I’ve been using AI for ‘bits and pieces’ of the work, that are easy to plug in. Make a diagram, summarise a document, write a Jira ticket.
When we think about our work as analysts, though, it starts well before we’re writing a Jira card or drawing a sequence diagram.
The BABoK tells us that if we want to perform effective business analysis that adds value, we should plan for it. Whether you’re stepping up to a new client, starting in a new business domain, or just picking up the next big feature from a Product Manager for a product you’ve been building for some time – it pays to think about what analysis tasks you will need to perform, and how you will present the elicited and modelled information, well before you start the actual work.
In this session, we will take a look at the BABoK Planning knowledge area, and see how we might adapt and align it with AI-assisted analysis in mind. From knowing what techniques we already know can be handled by AI, to managing information in a way that makes it accessible to AI’s for traceability, consistency checks, and more.
This is an interactive session, where we can explore some different BA approaches, share our experiences, and set ourselves up for deliberate integration of AI into our BA deliverables