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Speaker: Darryl Wolfaardt

Two kinds of mind, one workflow – learning to move with the machine, not against it.

An LLM and a business analyst have more in common than you’d think.  Both take in the world, hold only so much at once, and quietly fill the gaps when they’re short on context – one just does it at machine speed.  This session puts the two minds side by side: where they mirror each other, where they clash, and how to stop bracing against AI and start moving with it.  Less “will it replace me,” more “who leads and who follows.”

This is part one of a two-part discussion.

 

About the Speaker

Darryl trained as a business analyst at FTI, the Faculty Training Institute, early in his career, and he has spent the years since in the messy middle of real projects – even alongside research scientists, where he learnt that even brilliant people struggle to agree on what a word means.

When he was a kid, his dad worked for IBM, and they had a single word motto: THINK.

His dad always stressed it’s not what to think, but how to think that’s important.

And in our game, the question is as relevant as ever: “How do you take something genuinely complex and get a room of people to actually share an understanding of it?”

That took Darryl through domain-driven design, functional programming and event storming, and eventually to building Blueprint, a way of working with AI that keeps a human – specifically a BA – at the centre.

Darryl is not an AI evangelist. He spent years burning out chasing every new fad in IT, so he came to this late, and while he is sceptical, he thinks we’re onto something.