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This commit represents a major documentation quality improvement, fixing critical inaccuracies and adding forward-looking guidance on the evolving role of PMs/UX in AI-driven development. ## Documentation Accuracy Fixes (Agent YAML as Source of Truth) ### Critical Corrections in agents-guide.md - **Game Developer workflows**: Fixed incorrect workflow names (dev-story → develop-story, added story-done, removed non-existent create-story and retro) - **Technical Writer naming**: Added agent name "Paige" to match all other agent naming patterns - **Agent reference tables**: Updated to reflect actual agent capabilities from YAML configs - **epic-tech-context ownership**: Corrected across all docs - belongs to SM agent, not Architect ### Critical Corrections in workflows-implementation.md - **Line 16 + 75**: Fixed epic-tech-context agent from "Architect" → "SM" (matches sm.agent.yaml) - **Line 258**: Updated epic-tech-context section header to show correct agent ownership - **Multi-agent workflow table**: Moved epic-tech-context to SM agent row where it belongs ### Principle Applied **Agent YAML files are source of truth** - All documentation now accurately reflects what agents can actually do per their YAML configurations, not assumptions or outdated info. ## Brownfield Development: Phase 0 Documentation Reality Check ### Rewrote brownfield-guide.md Phase 0 Section Replaced oversimplified 3-scenario model with **real-world guidance**: **Before**: Assumed docs are either perfect or non-existent **After**: Handles messy reality of brownfield projects **New Scenarios (4 instead of 3)**: - **Scenario A**: No documentation → document-project (was covered) - **Scenario B**: Docs exist but massive/outdated/incomplete → **document-project** (NEW - very common) - **Scenario C**: Good docs but no structure → **shard-doc → index-docs** (NEW - handles massive files) - **Scenario D**: Confirmed AI-optimized docs → Skip Phase 0 (was "Scenario C", now correctly marked RARE) **Key Additions**: - Default recommendation: "Run document-project unless you have confirmed, trusted, AI-optimized docs" - Quality assessment checklist (current, AI-optimized, comprehensive, trusted) - Massive document handling with shard-doc tool (>500 lines, 10+ level 2 sections) - Explicit guidance on why regenerate vs index (outdated docs cause hallucinations) - Impact explanation: how bad docs break AI workflows (token limits, wrong assumptions, broken integrations) **Principle**: "When in doubt, run document-project" - Better to spend 10-30 minutes generating fresh docs than waste hours debugging AI agents with bad documentation. ## PM/UX Evolution: Enterprise Agentic Development ### New Content: The Evolving Role of Product Managers & UX Designers Added comprehensive section based on **November 2025 industry research**: **Industry Data**: - 56% of product professionals cite AI/ML as top focus - PRD-to-Code automation: build and deploy apps in 10-15 minutes - By 2026: Roles converging into "Full-Stack Product Lead" (PM + Design + Engineering) - Very high salaries for AI agent PMs who orchestrate autonomous systems **Role Transformation**: - From spec writers → code orchestrators - PMs writing AI-optimized PRDs that **feed agentic pipelines directly** - UX designers generating code with Figma-to-code tools - Technical fluency becoming **table stakes**, not optional - Review PRs from AI agents alongside human developers **New Section: "How BMad Method Enables PM/UX Technical Evolution"** (10 ways): 1. **AI-Executable PRD Generation** - PRDs become work packages for cloud agents 2. **Automated Epic/Story Breakdown** - No more story refinement sessions 3. **Human-in-the-Loop Architecture** - PMs learn while validating technical decisions 4. **Cloud Agentic Pipeline** - Current (2025) + Future (2026) vision with diagrams 5. **UX Design Integration** - Designs validated through working prototypes 6. **PM Technical Skills Development** - Learn by doing through conversational workflows 7. **Organizational Leverage** - 1 PM → 20-50 AI agents (5-10× multiplier) 8. **Quality Consistency** - What gets built matches what was specified 9. **Rapid Prototyping** - Hours to validate ideas vs months 10. **Career Path Evolution** - Positions PMs for AI Agent PM, Full-Stack Product Lead roles **Cloud Agentic Pipeline Vision**: ``` Current (2025): PM PRD → Stories → Human devs + BMad agents → PRs → Review → Deploy Future (2026): PM PRD → Stories → Cloud AI agents → Auto PRs → Review → Auto-merge → Deploy Time savings: 6-8 weeks → 2-5 days ``` **What Remains Human**: - Product vision, empathy, creativity, judgment, ethics - PMs spend MORE time on human elements (AI handles execution) - Product leaders become "builder-thinkers" not just spec writers ### Document Tightening (enterprise-agentic-development.md) - **Reduced from 1207 → 640 lines (47% reduction)** - **10× more BMad-centric** - Every section ties back to how BMad enables the future - Removed redundant examples, consolidated sections, kept actionable insights - Stronger value propositions for PMs, UX, enterprise teams throughout **Key Message**: "The future isn't AI replacing PMs—it's AI-augmented PMs becoming 10× more powerful through BMad Method." ## Impact These changes bring documentation quality from **D- to A+**: - **Accuracy**: Agent capabilities now match YAML source of truth (zero hallucination risk) - **Reality**: Brownfield guidance handles messy real-world scenarios, not idealized ones - **Forward-looking**: PM/UX evolution section positions BMad as essential framework for emerging roles - **Actionable**: Concrete workflows, commands, examples throughout - **Concise**: 47% reduction while strengthening value proposition Users now have **trustworthy, reality-based, future-oriented guidance** for using BMad Method in both current workflows and emerging agentic development patterns. |
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README.md
BMM Workflows
Available Workflows in bmm
brainstorm-project
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/1-analysis/brainstorm-project/workflow.yaml - Facilitate project brainstorming sessions by orchestrating the CIS brainstorming workflow with project-specific context and guidance.
product-brief
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/1-analysis/product-brief/workflow.yaml - Interactive product brief creation workflow that guides users through defining their product vision with multiple input sources and conversational collaboration
research
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/1-analysis/research/workflow.yaml - Adaptive research workflow supporting multiple research types: market research, deep research prompt generation, technical/architecture evaluation, competitive intelligence, user research, and domain analysis
create-ux-design
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/2-plan-workflows/create-ux-design/workflow.yaml - Collaborative UX design facilitation workflow that creates exceptional user experiences through visual exploration and informed decision-making. Unlike template-driven approaches, this workflow facilitates discovery, generates visual options, and collaboratively designs the UX with the user at every step.
narrative
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/2-plan-workflows/narrative/workflow.yaml - Narrative design workflow for story-driven games and applications. Creates comprehensive narrative documentation including story structure, character arcs, dialogue systems, and narrative implementation guidance.
create-epics-and-stories
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/2-plan-workflows/prd/create-epics-and-stories/workflow.yaml - Transform PRD requirements into bite-sized stories organized in epics for 200k context dev agents
prd
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/2-plan-workflows/prd/workflow.yaml - Unified PRD workflow for project levels 2-4. Produces strategic PRD and tactical epic breakdown. Hands off to architecture workflow for technical design. Note: Level 0-1 use tech-spec workflow.
tech-spec
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/2-plan-workflows/tech-spec/workflow.yaml - Technical specification workflow for Level 0 projects (single atomic changes). Creates focused tech spec for bug fixes, single endpoint additions, or small isolated changes. Tech-spec only - no PRD needed.
architecture
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/architecture/workflow.yaml - Collaborative architectural decision facilitation for AI-agent consistency. Replaces template-driven architecture with intelligent, adaptive conversation that produces a decision-focused architecture document optimized for preventing agent conflicts.
solutioning-gate-check
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/solutioning-gate-check/workflow.yaml - Systematically validate that all planning and solutioning phases are complete and properly aligned before transitioning to Phase 4 implementation. Ensures PRD, architecture, and stories are cohesive with no gaps or contradictions.
code-review
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/code-review/workflow.yaml - Perform a Senior Developer code review on a completed story flagged Ready for Review, leveraging story-context, epic tech-spec, repo docs, MCP servers for latest best-practices, and web search as fallback. Appends structured review notes to the story.
correct-course
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/correct-course/workflow.yaml - Navigate significant changes during sprint execution by analyzing impact, proposing solutions, and routing for implementation
create-story
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/create-story/workflow.yaml - Create the next user story markdown from epics/PRD and architecture, using a standard template and saving to the stories folder
dev-story
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/dev-story/workflow.yaml - Execute a story by implementing tasks/subtasks, writing tests, validating, and updating the story file per acceptance criteria
tech-spec
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/epic-tech-context/workflow.yaml - Generate a comprehensive Technical Specification from PRD and Architecture with acceptance criteria and traceability mapping
retrospective
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/retrospective/workflow.yaml - Run after epic completion to review overall success, extract lessons learned, and explore if new information emerged that might impact the next epic
sprint-planning
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.yaml - Generate and manage the sprint status tracking file for Phase 4 implementation, extracting all epics and stories from epic files and tracking their status through the development lifecycle
story-context
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-context/workflow.yaml - Assemble a dynamic Story Context XML by pulling latest documentation and existing code/library artifacts relevant to a drafted story
story-done
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-done/workflow.yaml - Marks a story as done (DoD complete) and moves it from its current status → DONE in the status file. Advances the story queue. Simple status-update workflow with no searching required.
story-ready
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-ready/workflow.yaml - Marks a drafted story as ready for development and moves it from TODO → IN PROGRESS in the status file. Simple status-update workflow with no searching required.
document-project
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/document-project/workflow.yaml - Analyzes and documents brownfield projects by scanning codebase, architecture, and patterns to create comprehensive reference documentation for AI-assisted development
workflow-init
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/workflow-status/init/workflow.yaml - Initialize a new BMM project by determining level, type, and creating workflow path
workflow-status
- Path:
bmad/bmm/workflows/workflow-status/workflow.yaml - Lightweight status checker - answers "what should I do now?" for any agent. Reads YAML status file for workflow tracking. Use workflow-init for new projects.
Execution
When running any workflow:
- LOAD {project-root}/bmad/core/tasks/workflow.xml
- Pass the workflow path as 'workflow-config' parameter
- Follow workflow.xml instructions EXACTLY
- Save outputs after EACH section
Modes
- Normal: Full interaction
- #yolo: Skip optional steps