Business analysts and product owners have new tools to accelerate translating conversations, brainstorming, and other meeting notes into ideas, epics, and features. Tameem Hourani, principal at RapDev, says, “By joining conference calls, analyzing them, summarizing them, and extracting takeaways from them, you can suddenly groom backlogs for epics of all sizes.”
How genAI supports rapid prototyping and faster delivery
A second opportunity for agile development teams is to use genAI to reduce cycle times, especially around proof of concepts and iterating through end-user experiences. GenAI should help agile teams incorporate more design thinking practices and increase feedback cycles.
“GenAI tools are fundamentally shifting the role of product owners and business analysts by enabling them to prototype and iterate on requirements directly within their IDEs rapidly,” says Simon Margolis, Associate CTO at SADA. “This allows for more dynamic collaboration with stakeholders, as they can visualize and refine user stories and acceptance criteria in real time. Instead of being bogged down in documentation, they can focus on strategic alignment and faster delivery, with AI handling the technical translation.”