BMAD vs Taskmaster/Roo Code orchestrator

[anshulg2015]

Has anyone used BMAD method with either Taskmaster or Roo code orchestrator?
Are these complementary or conflicting?

I'm using Taskmaster currently and was thinking of leveraging this method, but am unsure how BMAD will work with it. Could you please share your learnings. Also, if anyone has used it with Roo code would love to hear your experience of how you configured premade agents in Roo to work with BMAD.

[bmadcode]

I'm going to try out taskmaster this weekend, have heard it mentioned quite a bit but have not really explored it much - also curious to see how well it works with this. will post back here if once I get a chance

[TheDarkSkyXD]

it would be nice to be able to have bmad able to make new tasks or able to create a plan/prd with tasks for a new feature, like how task magic does and i think taskmaster has that feature. https://github.com/iannuttall/task-magic @bmadcode

[ironbelly]

Always leery of someone that does an initial commit and walks away. There's so many things wrong with those initial commits, to now have a series of fixes and updates in the following hours, days and weeks makes me think this was a find weekend project for someone who wasn't really series, they pushed it and moved on to something else.

[TheDarkSkyXD]

Lol, clearly you haven't heard the saying if it ain't broken don't fix it. Plenty of projects are always left in the dust if it doesn't need to worked on when it works fine.

[dracic]

You either use BMAD or TaskMaster for managing tasks. Why would you use both? On the other hand, for TaskMaster you need to have well creafted PRD to start, and you can do that in BMAD, create PRD and ARCH and then upload to Gem which has Example PRD and tell it to adjust them for Taskmaster PRD.

[bmadcode]

Ah interesting - yeah I still dont understand specifically what taskmaster offers so thats on me - but the whole purpose of the V3 (and V2) was the ability to create new tasks and templates - or tweak them to needs. So if there is a taskmaster format, that could totally be an output option.

[bmadcode]

Yeah - I am just not very clear I guess on what TaskMaster does differently than BMad - or task magic. I like taking ideas and features missing in BMad and continuing to evolve it.

I like that BMad currently runs without the need to use MCP - but I think there might also be some benefits there, especially with all the differences between tools - so I am looking at creating an MCP version but it will be optional and still stay aligned with the current implementation which will continue to be primary.

[TheDarkSkyXD]

task magic is somewhat like task master its not able to have the levels that task master has but it works all within cursor rules and no mcp or external program. task master will take a prd or a new feature you request and break it down into tasks and if a task is to difficult then it will take that task and break it down into sub task after it does research.

[bmadcode]

Do you see any benefit of Task Master over the way BMAD already sets up the stories with the detailed tasks and subtasks? Is the benefit just that its behind mcp?

[TheDarkSkyXD]

Can bmad add new features and it break them down into tasks and then it will break the harder tasks into subtasks after it does some research on the best way to break this feature or request from the user into tasks and if needed subtasks? also task master uses a level system to determine how complex the task is and if it says its complex you can tell ti to break that task into subtasks. heres a good video https://youtu.be/XBu8KeWuQbM about task magic, it doesnt have all the features of task master but its still pretty good.

[ironbelly]

Curious to hear how BMAD handles this as well