Standardize BA documentation
across every project and team.
BADS provides a single, enterprise-ready standard for business analyst documentation. From individual certification to full-scale rollout, we help PMOs, COEs, and product organizations bring consistency to requirements, user stories, and functional specs.
Why organizations adopt the BADS standard
Documentation is often the quiet bottleneck in delivery. BADS gives you a shared language, structure, and set of expectations for every analyst, project, and vendor partner.
Replace one-off templates and tribal knowledge with a governed standard that flexes across agile, hybrid, and waterfall environments.
- Common structure for BRDs, FRDs, and user stories
- Reduced rework from “lost” or incomplete requirements
- Faster onboarding for new analysts and vendors
Make it easy to demonstrate how decisions were made, requirements were validated, and changes were approved — project by project.
- Clear lineage from business need to delivered change
- Documentation ready for internal and external audit
- Better alignment with regulatory and policy requirements
Give architects, engineers, and implementation partners the information they need in a format they can trust and act on quickly.
- Reduced clarification cycles and meetings
- Better handoffs between business and technology teams
- Higher confidence in scope, estimates, and test coverage
How BADS integrates with your organization
We don’t replace your project methodology — we sit underneath it. BADS is designed to plug into the way you already run projects, whether that’s SAFe, Scrum, PMI, or a blended framework.
We work with your BA leadership, PMO, and delivery leads to understand current documentation practices, pain points, and constraints across key programs.
Using the BADS core methodology, we define a tailored documentation standard that aligns to your tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow) and delivery models.
Analysts complete BADS certification to ensure a consistent baseline in how they write requirements, user stories, and supporting documentation.
We help you embed BADS into your governance model with review checklists, coaching sessions, and quality scorecards for key initiatives.
- Executive and stakeholder briefing on the BADS standard
- Targeted pilot across one or two priority programs
- Certification cohorts for business analysts and product owners
- Template library and examples integrated into your toolset
- Quality review sessions and feedback loop with BA leadership
From there, you can scale to additional portfolios, regions, or vendors at a pace that matches your change capacity.
Programs for teams and enterprises
Whether you’re piloting BADS with a single team or rolling it out globally, our programs give you a clear path from “interested” to “fully adopted.”
- BADS certification for a defined team or cohort
- Access to the BADS methodology and core templates
- Team-level documentation review and feedback
- Summary insights for BA leadership and PMO
- Discovery and tailoring across multiple portfolios
- Phased rollout plan with milestones and metrics
- Integration with existing methodologies and tools
- Ongoing advisory support for BA leadership
- Targeted assessment of existing BA documentation
- Scorecards, findings, and prioritized recommendations
- Coaching sessions with analysts and product owners
- Optional integration with internal QA and audit teams
What leaders typically see within the first year
Metrics vary by organization, but the themes are consistent: fewer surprises late in delivery, less rework, and a stronger partnership between business and technology.
- Clear, enforced standard for all core documentation types
- Higher confidence in requirements quality before build
- Fewer escalations tied to “misunderstood” or missing requirements
- Better visibility into documentation health across programs
- Reduced clarification cycles and rework during build and test
- More productive workshops and sprint ceremonies
- Improved traceability from business need to delivered functionality
- Documentation that can be reused for future releases and audits
Frequently asked by corporate teams
A few of the questions we regularly address when organizations evaluate BADS for their analysts and project portfolios.
No. BADS focuses on the documentation produced by business analysts and product teams. It complements frameworks like SAFe, Scrum, PMI, and hybrid models by standardizing the artifacts those frameworks rely on.
Individual certification is priced at $199 per analyst. For corporate cohorts and enterprise rollouts, we offer volume pricing and structured programs that combine certification, advisory services, and governance support. We’ll align pricing to your scope, timelines, and regions.
Yes. BADS is designed to be tool-agnostic. We frequently align to Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and proprietary templates. Tailoring is part of our corporate engagements so the standard feels native to your environment.
Most organizations begin with a focused pilot: one or two programs, a defined cohort of analysts, and a clear success measure. From there, we expand based on results and change capacity. We’ll help you design a right-sized path forward.