Level 3 certification

BADS Expert Documentation Governance

Move from producing documentation to leading the standard for how documentation works across your BA practice, project teams, and product lines. Build governance that improves clarity without slowing delivery.

What you’ll learn

BADS Expert focuses on using BADS as a framework for a team or organization, not just for your own documents. You’ll learn how to define standards, set review criteria, and enable consistent adoption.

Standard design

Designing a documentation standard

Translate BADS into a practical standard for your environment, balancing consistency with flexibility across teams.

  • Define mandatory, optional, and situational artifacts
  • Apply BADS without overburdening teams
  • Align expectations with leadership and delivery
Governance

Governance and review

Establish lightweight governance that gets used instead of heavyweight processes that teams bypass.

  • Design practical review processes for key artifacts
  • Set clear, objective quality criteria
  • Support audits, compliance, and risk reduction
Enablement

Coaching and enabling BAs

Help BAs and product roles adopt BADS in a way that supports their work instead of feeling like extra reporting.

  • Provide feedback that improves documentation without rewriting
  • Build a shared vocabulary around quality
  • Make BADS part of onboarding and coaching
Integration

Integrating BADS with tools and processes

Map BADS artifacts into tooling and delivery models so the standard fits how teams already work.

  • Connect BADS to Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and more
  • Align documentation with agile, hybrid, or project delivery
  • Measure impact over time with consistent benchmarks
Adoption

Roadmap for practice-wide adoption

Plan a phased rollout and communicate changes to leadership, delivery teams, and stakeholders.

  • Start small and expand with visible wins
  • Use pilot projects to refine your approach
  • Make BADS part of long-term practice strategy
Outcomes

Setting quality benchmarks

Define what good looks like and create repeatable evaluation so documentation quality improves without debate.

  • Create consistent scoring and review checklists
  • Track adherence without micromanagement
  • Improve consistency across teams and vendors
Ready to lead documentation standards, not just follow them
Enroll in BADS Expert and put a clear, practical documentation standard at the center of your BA practice.