Modern Business Analyst with GenAI & Agentic AI
The traditional BA was measured by documents produced. The modern BA is measured by outcomes: turn ambiguous enterprise problems into valuable, testable, governed and deployment-ready human–AI solutions — and be the BA for the AI solution, not just a BA who uses AI.
What does a modern Business Analyst do?
A modern Business Analyst turns an ambiguous business need into a specification an AI-enabled system can be built and accepted against. The classic craft — stakeholders, process, requirements, acceptance — still holds. What is new is that the thing being specified may reason, act and get things wrong: so the analyst also specifies the agent’s boundaries, the human approval, the evidence that closes a story, and the conditions under which the system must stop and ask.
- •Stakeholders — Power/Interest & RACI
- •As-is process reality (BPMN)
- •Data reality & system landscape
- •Problem frame & KPI baseline
- •Requirements — BRD / FDD / RTM
- •10-section Agent Specification
- •Human-in-the-loop control points
- •Acceptance criteria & evidence
- •Versioned evaluation sets & red-team
- •UAT & go / no-go recommendation
- •Adoption & change (ADKAR)
- •Benefit — value scorecard & ROI
“Using AI as a BA” and “being the BA for an AI solution” are different jobs.
Use AI to prepare, compare, draft, structure, synthesise and review BA work faster — every output subject to human verification.
- •Interview preparation & probing question sets
- •Stakeholder-feedback clustering & workshop summaries
- •Process-draft, user-story & acceptance-criteria suggestions
- •Test-scenario ideas & change / training-content drafts
Discover, qualify, design, specify, validate and govern GenAI features, RAG assistants, tool-using agents and agentic workflows.
- •Define an agent’s goal, tools, boundaries & permissions
- •Design human approval, escalation & autonomy
- •Specify evaluation, observability & operational controls
- •Keep a named human accountable for every outcome
Built for people moving into AI platform delivery.
Prior experience: no coding required. You build enough data, API and RAG fluency to collaborate credibly with engineers — you’re assessed on whether your solution is valuable, clear, buildable, testable and governable, not on writing production code.
Specify the solution — and govern the AI inside it.
Twelve modules. One enterprise value lifecycle.
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The Modern Business Analyst in an AI-Native Enterprise
Foundation
Build the operating model of a modern BA before entering solution work.
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The Modern Business Analyst in an AI-Native Enterprise
FoundationBuild the operating model of a modern BA before entering solution work.
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GenAI, Agentic AI & Enterprise AI Foundations for BAs
AI
Develop a durable mental model for AI-enabled enterprise solutions.
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GenAI, Agentic AI & Enterprise AI Foundations for BAs
AIDevelop a durable mental model for AI-enabled enterprise solutions.
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Enterprise Discovery & Stakeholder Intelligence
Hands-on
Move beyond the first feature request and discover the actual operating problem.
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Enterprise Discovery & Stakeholder Intelligence
Hands-onMove beyond the first feature request and discover the actual operating problem.
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Problem Framing, Outcomes & AI Opportunity Prioritization
AI
Convert discovery evidence into a measurable and defensible opportunity.
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Problem Framing, Outcomes & AI Opportunity Prioritization
AIConvert discovery evidence into a measurable and defensible opportunity.
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Process Analysis & Human–AI Workflow Design
Hands-on
Understand how work actually happens, redesign it, then decide where agents belong.
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Process Analysis & Human–AI Workflow Design
Hands-onUnderstand how work actually happens, redesign it, then decide where agents belong.
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Agile Requirements, Backlogs & Agent Specifications
AI
Translate business understanding into a complete, traceable solution contract.
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Agile Requirements, Backlogs & Agent Specifications
AITranslate business understanding into a complete, traceable solution contract.
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Data, Integration & Solution Literacy for BA–FDE Collaboration
Hands-on
Enough technical fluency to collaborate credibly with engineers and FDEs.
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Data, Integration & Solution Literacy for BA–FDE Collaboration
Hands-onEnough technical fluency to collaborate credibly with engineers and FDEs.
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Prototyping, Conversational UX & Walking Skeletons
AI
Make assumptions visible before full development.
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Prototyping, Conversational UX & Walking Skeletons
AIMake assumptions visible before full development.
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Testing, UAT, Evaluations & AI Safety
AI
One unified quality approach for deterministic apps and probabilistic AI.
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Testing, UAT, Evaluations & AI Safety
AIOne unified quality approach for deterministic apps and probabilistic AI.
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Change, Trust, Training & Adoption
Hands-on
Prepare people to work safely and effectively with AI-enabled workflows.
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Change, Trust, Training & Adoption
Hands-onPrepare people to work safely and effectively with AI-enabled workflows.
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Go-Live, Observability, AgentOps & Production Support
AI
Support progressive, observable and reversible deployment.
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Go-Live, Observability, AgentOps & Production Support
AISupport progressive, observable and reversible deployment.
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Value Realization, Governance & Continuous Improvement
AI
Keep the solution valuable and controlled after go-live.
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Value Realization, Governance & Continuous Improvement
AIKeep the solution valuable and controlled after go-live.
The analyst & consultant toolkit, one real engagement.
You don't watch videos. You run engagements.
Three full-production projects, each threaded through the entire curriculum. By the project, you've built the whole stack around them.
Digital Edify Agentic CRM — the continuous project
One enterprise scenario threaded through every module: run discovery workshops, map as-is/to-be BPMN, write the BRD/FDD/RTM chain, specify the agent, evaluate it, and defend a go/no-go — end to end on the Digital Edify Agentic CRM.
- 01Discovery pack — stakeholder map, as-is BPMN and problem frame with KPI baseline
- 02Traceable BRD / FDD / RTM chain from need to accepted outcome
- 0310-section Agent Specification with HITL gates and autonomy sign-off
- 04Versioned evaluation set, red-team report and a defended go/no-go in viva
AI Opportunity & Autonomy Canvas
Qualify a candidate AI opportunity against value, feasibility and risk — score suitability, set the autonomy dial, and practice the judgment to defer or reject one that a rule or workflow serves better.
To-Be Human–AI Workflow & evaluation set
Redesign the process as a BPMN with an explicit agent lane, HITL approval gates and escalation triggers — then prove it with a versioned evaluation set, red-team report and UAT before recommending go-live.
Your implementation engagement in a controlled project environment.
Pick a real partner workflow. Run the engagement end to end — workshops, to-be design, backlog, UAT and a governed AI rollout plan — and defend it before a review panel.
Taught by engineers who shipped agentic AI to production.
Manikanta is the founder of Digital Edify and brings 15 years of enterprise platform architecture from AT&T, Salesforce, Cox Communications, and Broadcom — where he led enterprise platform and AI rollouts for Fortune-500 banks, telcos, and insurers. Most recently he architected production agentic-AI deployments that replaced traditional triage tiers with autonomous case-handling.
His classes get you two things other programs don't give you: a founding architect who's shipped enterprise AI from inside the Fortune 500, and a curriculum updated monthly — so when hiring managers ask about agent specs, evaluation sets or HITL design, you've already built it. M.S. in Engineering, Purdue University.
Ravi is Chief Technologist at Digital Edify, where he leads the implementation and delivery practice. After years running enterprise transformation programs, he now teaches the analyst's craft — discovery engagements run phase by phase, process workshops that get to real decisions, and UAT that stands up in front of a steering committee.
His delivery modules are built from real engagement post-mortems, not slide decks. Expect to leave with working workshop kits, requirement and UAT templates, and a delivery-governance playbook you can run on day one.
What employers say about Digital Edify grads.
Real feedback from talent leaders at the enterprise partners hiring our AI-native BA graduates.
An Agent‑Ready credential, not a participation trophy.
READY
2026
Roles this program prepares you for.
What employers should see in your portfolio: that you can take an engagement from discovery to value — map the process, write requirements developers build without rework, run the workshop, accept against criteria, and govern AI use cases with guardrails and metrics.
Your first BA offer isn't a lottery ticket. It's a built process.
A portfolio, not a graveyard.
Guidance on assembling a consulting portfolio — process maps, workshop artifacts, backlog and UAT evidence, and your AI rollout plan — reviewed 1:1, not via template.
Rewrite, don't proofread.
A one-page resume rebuilt around the artifact chain you shipped, the agent you deployed, and the business outcome. Reviewed against role-relevant portfolio and interview criteria.
Where most opportunities actually live.
Profile tuning plus direct warm introductions into our hiring-partner network — Infosys, TCS, Deloitte, Accenture, Cognizant, NTT Data, Capgemini. You leave with recruiter contacts, not a generic "good luck."
Hundreds of BA careers launched — here are eight.
Come chat with us — over coffee, or over Zoom.
One flagship campus in Hyderabad, plus online classes running on Indian and US timezones.
Questions we actually get — answered honestly.
Straight answers on prerequisites, the platform, certifications, and placement. If something's missing, book a 20-minute advisor call — no slides, no pitch.
Do I need a technical or coding background?
Isn’t this just a documentation-heavy BA course with "AI" bolted on?
Do I actually specify agents, or is it theory?
What’s the time commitment?
Will I get a certificate recruiters care about?
Can this lead to AI Product Owner or Forward Deployed AI Engineer roles?
Online, weekend, or on-campus?
What if I fall behind?
How does this differ from an IIBA or CBAP certification?
Do I need to be technical?
What comes after this programme?
Is the credential accredited or a regulatory qualification?
Still have a question? Talk to an advisor — no slides, no pitch.
One million AI‑native professionals by 2027.
Let's put you in that number.
Book a 20‑minute advisor call. We'll map your current role to the right program, talk honestly about timelines, and walk you through a real class's project.








