Generative AI for Business Analysts in 60 Minutes
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Learn how GenAI is reshaping the role and how to prepare
Course outcomes
- Learn how business leaders are thinking about generative AI and what business analysts need to do to evolve
- Identify how business analysts can use generative AI to work smarter and be more productive
- Understand how other roles adjacent to business analysts are using generative AI and why this matters to business analysts
Course description
Join expert Angela Wick to dive into the implications of generative AI for business analysts. You’ll explore three key areas—productivity, teaming, and business changes—where generative AI is reshaping the business analyst’s role and necessary skills. This concise overview will equip you with a greater awareness of generative AI's impact on your work and give you practical insights and strategies to adapt quickly.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Identify how to use generative AI to be more productive and work smarter
- Recognize how other roles that business analysts work with are using generative AI and why this matters to business analysts
- Develop the skills to be more consultative as a business analyst working with business leaders interested in leveraging generative AI
This live event is for you because...
- You’re an active or aspiring business analyst who wants to learn how generative AI is impacting the role.
- You’re a business analyst, product owner, business systems analyst, or project manager.
- You work on project teams changing systems and processes.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of the business analyst’s role and responsibilities
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel, fifth edition (book)
- Explore Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis (on-demand course)
- Read Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis (book)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
LLMs and data analytics (15 minutes)
- Presentation: LLMs, data/knowledge sources, and data analytics
Gen AI and business analysis—three impacts (40 minutes)
- Presentation: Three impacts and their key usage scenarios: your productivity; SDLC and teaming; business models and process changes; skills to level up
- Group discussion: Which have you tried?; Is your oxygen mask on before helping others?
- Hands-on exercises: Use GenAI to research a process domain; use GenAI to draft requirements
Wrap-up and Q&A (5 minutes)
Your Instructor
Angela Wick
Angela Wick is a respected and internationally-known business analysis, requirements, and agile product ownership expert. She’s passionate about bringing agility, innovation, and creativity to solution delivery processes. She is the creator and host of BA-Cube.com and the author of a forthcoming book on AI and business analysis.