Everyone's prompting. Few are shipping consistently. The gap isn't the AI — it's the lack of structure around it. Individual contributors get productive fast. Teams get chaotic faster.
Without shared workflows, you end up with ten people using AI ten different ways, producing inconsistent outputs that don't connect. BMAD Method addresses this directly.
The Problem With “Just Use AI”
It's an open-source framework that treats AI as a structured collaborator across the entire product lifecycle — from initial brief to post-launch support.
“AI makes individuals faster. Frameworks make teams ship.”
What The Business Actually Gets
Frameworks aren't exciting. Shipping is. Here's what structure delivers:
Predictability. When every feature follows the same workflow — brief, requirements, architecture, stories, build, review — you can estimate with confidence. No more “it depends on how the AI behaves today.”
Consistency across the team. Junior and senior developers produce outputs in the same shape. Product and engineering speak the same language because they're working from the same playbooks.
Knowledge that compounds. BMAD uses shared knowledge bases — patterns, standards, decisions — that every agent references. Lessons learned on one feature automatically inform the next. The team gets smarter, not just busier.
Reduced support burden. This is the big one. Get the process right — especially testing — and you spend less time firefighting after launch.
For The Product People In The Room
BMAD isn't just a developer tool. The early phases are explicitly product-led:
These aren't developer artefacts translated for product. They're product artefacts that developers can actually use.
The framework forces the right conversations early. What are we building? For whom? How will we know it worked? Answer these before engineering starts, not during code review.
Testing: Where This Really Shines
The Test Architect (TEA) module is what brought us here. A friend at AWS pointed us to it when we were thinking about post-launch support for Spiracle.
His logic was simple: if you get testing right, you reduce your support and maintenance burden before it starts. TEA delivers on that premise.
NFR assessment — performance, security, accessibility — the non-functional requirements that usually get panic-tested the week before launch. TEA gives them structured attention throughout.
Nine workflows covering framework setup, CI/CD integration, test design, automation, and review. Comprehensive without being overwhelming.
If you get testing right, you reduce your support and maintenance burden before it starts.
— Friend at AWS
How We're Using It
Honestly? The full BMAD framework is too big for our current projects. Twenty-one agents and fifty-plus workflows is a lot to adopt mid-stream.
But we've taken pieces.
We've enhanced our Two Engines approach with elements from BMAD — particularly the structured handoffs and the testing philosophy. The risk-based prioritisation from TEA is now part of how we think about coverage. The release gate concept has tightened our definition of “done.”
It's working. We're shipping with more confidence and catching issues earlier.
For Spiracle 2.0 — a greenfield build with the complexity to justify it — we're planning to adopt the full framework. We'll report back on how that goes.
Who Should Look At This
BMAD fits teams who:
- —Need consistency across multiple contributors
- —Are building complex enough systems that ad-hoc prompting creates chaos
- —Want product and engineering working from shared artefacts
- —Care about post-launch quality, not just initial delivery
It's overkill for solo projects or quick prototypes. It's valuable when the cost of inconsistency exceeds the cost of adopting a framework.
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Try it: npx bmad-method install