Welcome to the BAsics News page. Each week I'll add any stories about the world of Business Analysis, Project Management, or any news stories that may be relevant to our profession. Eventually I will be automating this process and so it will be updated intra-day, however I'm doing it manually currently so bear with me if I only get round to updating the page once a week.

I'm pretty happy with the way the project has turned out and have ideas for more features. I have added the ability to have the reports scheduled and emailed to me when complete. I have also added a feature to research the company associated to the website, it will look through the socials, and Wikipedia and produce a dossier.

Why?
Well mostly because I wanted to maintain my programming skills, but also to add to them. The service uses AI to carry out a number of the actions, rather than a statics rule set. The benefit of this is that, rather than having to code and then test, maintain and update 100 different activities, I can simply use an LLM agent to carry out the activities and to adapt for each different URL / organisation. 

Why else?
I recently built an AI CV checker, which will provide a detailed analysis of ones CV (I think I posted in News). But this is only half of the parties involved in working with a client. It is also useful to know about a prospective client, and I believe that it would be of great value to be able to demonstrate your ability to analyse an organisation, identify issues and solutions using the client you are talking with. It's the BA equivilant of the free sample sent out by a manufacturer. "I can list off the times I have done x and y, or I can show you..."

I intend to publish both the CV checker and Website checker in the next few weeks, as the purpose of this site is to get more people into Business Analysts, I can teach, I can show, but doing the job is by far the best way to learn, so let's get you all doing it too! 

The service allows a user (me) to link my Google Health account, and connect to local weather data providers. I then created an AI agent to digest all the data, as well as user entries and even to view images uploaded, and then provide a summary. 

Over time the idea is to identify trends between the things that we know impact our mental health. My hypothesis is that entries that talk about "going for a drink", "out with friends", etc will likely be followed by a reduced step count (the hangover), and also co-oincide with a tonal change to less positive entries. 

The includsion of the weather is to relate things like how much sun we get (i.e not raining or cloudy) with the general tone, and the number of steps taken.