Field Notes
What the team behind the BMad Method is shipping, learning, and finding that holds up in production.
BMad Method now ships three separate paths from a described piece of work to reviewed, committed code: the full method, Quick Dev, and BMad Loop. The natural read is that these sit on a single speed dial, full ceremony at
Building Creatina with the rebuilt Agent Builder: one agent that remembers me, evolves as we talk, and works while I sleep.
There is a gap, in most engineering organizations right now, between what the AI coding tools can actually do and what their engineers are actually
After 25 years of UX design, Marten Angner spent his first 20 minutes with the BMad method and called it a love story — then rebuilt how Whiteport Design Studio works.
Inside the PRFAQ gauntlet: Amazon's method for killing bad ideas before they cost you months, now powered by the BMad Method and an
Every few years, something shifts the entire foundation of how software gets built. Containers changed deployment. Cloud changed infrastructure. DevOps changed who was responsible for
Ecosystem Pulse
BMad Update: Web Bundles for Gemini & ChatGPT, plus BMM v6.8.0
Web Bundles launch for Gemini and ChatGPT. BMM v6.8.0 with the new bmad-prd / bmad-brief / bmad-ux / bmad-spec planning generation. Plus a community-driven UI in alpha.
BMad Builder v1.5.0 — Agents That Remember, Evolve, and Wake on Their Own
The biggest update to BMad Builder since v1.0 just shipped. The agent builder now
BMad Method v6.2.1 — Rebuilt Code Review, Smarter Quick Dev, and a Growing Global Community
The latest significant release of BMad Method brings a ground-up rewrite of code review,
Founder & Editor in Chief
Creator of the BMad Method, the most widely adopted open-source framework for AI-driven agile development. 25+ years in product and software engineering, leading AI-native SDLC transformation at Fortune 500 organizations and training enterprise teams on the shift to agentic development.
He builds in public, ships daily, and writes about what is actually working rather than what is trending.
Open Source
The AI-native development framework used by teams at some of the largest brands in the industry. From solo developers to Fortune 500 engineering organizations — one methodology, any scale.
100% open source. Always free. Built by practitioners who ship software every day.
$ npx bmad-method install
Installing BMad Method...
Agents, workflows, skills — ready.
Done. Build something great.
New · Web Bundles
Self-contained planning agents for brainstorming, briefs, PRDs, PRFAQs, UX, and market research. Packaged as one-click installs for Google Gemini Gems and ChatGPT Custom GPTs. No IDE, no command line, no coding required.
Run the upfront thinking on your flat-rate web LLM subscription instead of burning IDE tokens. Drop the polished artifacts into your repo when you're ready to build.
Brainstorming Coach
60 ideation techniques across 10 categories
Product Brief Coach
Create, Update, or Validate a brief
PRFAQ Coach
Amazon Working Backwards discipline
PRD Coach
Built-in 7-dimension validation
UX Coach
DESIGN.md + EXPERIENCE.md spines
Market Research
Deep Research wrapped in a sharp brief
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