LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST | SWIFTSTRIDES
Christian Bertram
G’day! I’m Christian, the bloke who is “Turning strolls, scurries and stumbles into swift strides.”
For a quarter-century across South Australia’s private, government and defence sectors, I’ve helped people transform what they want, grapple with or dream of into reality.
My adventure began after Y2K had vanished like vapourware and programming took it’s place as the AI of its day. Since then, my innovative approach to a solving complex problems earned the AIIA iAwards Winner 2018 SA/NT. And I pierced long periods of hard work and learnings with moments of joy and pride when inaugurating an international enterprise architecture conference series that brought together the best minds in government and academia.
I’ve embraced becoming a specialist in diagnosing intent and initiatives and prescribing or administering potent remedies to derailed endeavours.
My superpower? Talking to people and paper to understand quickly, think deep like a top-tier AI model, then rapid-fire action to make things happen. My approach is unorthodox: learn all as if I cared deeply, step away as if I did no longer, and then swoop in like a magpie from a position of deep passion and insight to win the prize.
When I’m not obsessing about the infinity loop of discovery and delivery, I’m raising my own Brady Bunch in sunny Adelaide and enjoy evading real life magpies on my pushbike through our mesmerising landscape.
Every project is a new adventure I tackle with fair dinkum enthusiasm. Here’s to making lasting differences without taking ourselves too seriously!
Presentation: Five Minutes to Freedom: Lightning BA Workflows with Digital Co-Workers
This quick-fire demonstration showcases game-changing workflows that transform how business analysts collaborate with AI tools to solve common BA pain points in minutes rather than hours. Moving beyond theoretical AI potential, this session delivers immediate, practical applications that attendees can implement the very next day.
The demonstration addresses how BAs spend too much time on repetitive documentation and not enough on value-adding insights. Through rapid-fire examples, attendees will see how to:
- Distil requirements from a full stakeholder interview into fully structured requirements artifacts within minutes using conversational AI and automated document generation techniques
- Create powerful visualisations from gathered requirements by simply having a good chat, leveraging natural language processing to generate diagrams, catalogues and interactive charts
- Give your digital co-worker the food for thought they need to shine – mastering the art of prompt engineering to get precisely what you need from AI tools
- Transform your research approach with vibesearching – using AI-powered tools to gain actionable insights through natural, conversational language rather than keyword searches
Each workflow demonstrates the vital interplay between human expertise and AI assistance, emphasising how BAs maintain control while delegating appropriate tasks to digital co-workers. The session focuses exclusively on tools available today without significant investment, providing attendees with immediately applicable techniques regardless of organisational maturity.
Attendees will receive access to prompt templates and workflow guides they can adapt to their specific environments, ensuring they can replicate these efficiency gains in their own practice.