Level 2 certification

BADS Practitioner End-to-End BA Documentation

Apply the full BADS methodology across the project lifecycle from discovery workshops and requirements through user stories, acceptance criteria, and change tracking that stays audit-ready.

What you’ll learn

BADS Practitioner goes beyond fundamentals into an end-to-end approach for structuring and maintaining BA documentation on active projects so artifacts stay consistent as scope evolves.

Discovery

Discovery and stakeholder alignment

Structure discovery sessions so outputs feed directly into BADS artifacts and lead to clear documented outcomes.

  • Capture goals, constraints, and assumptions consistently
  • Turn workshop notes into structured documentation
  • Keep stakeholders aligned from the first conversation
Requirements

Requirements the BADS way

Use BADS patterns to keep business, functional, and non-functional requirements atomic, testable, and traceable.

  • Structure requirements for clarity and reuse
  • Maintain traceability across changes and dependencies
  • Write requirements both business and technical teams can work from
User stories

User stories and acceptance criteria

Write stories and criteria that represent real user behavior and directly support testing and delivery.

  • Connect stories to requirements and goals
  • Define acceptance criteria that reduce rework
  • Integrate with existing agile tooling
Artifacts

Supporting artifacts and documentation flow

Introduce visuals and supporting artifacts when they add value without overloading the project with unused documentation.

  • Use process flows and diagrams where they add clarity
  • Keep documentation lean but complete
  • Ensure artifacts line up with delivery and testing
Change

Working with change

Handle scope changes and evolving requirements while keeping the story of the project intact and traceable.

  • Document changes and impacts clearly
  • Communicate updates to stakeholders and teams
  • Keep artifacts accurate through the full lifecycle
Outcome

An end-to-end standard you can reuse

Build a documentation approach that stays consistent across projects and makes handoffs, testing, and delivery cleaner.

  • Repeatable workflow from discovery through delivery
  • Stronger traceability from goals to stories to testing
  • Clear, executive-ready documentation hygiene
Ready to standardize how you document every project
Enroll in BADS Practitioner and bring one end-to-end standard to requirements, stories, acceptance criteria, and change tracking.