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3 weeks ago
Which SDLC type (Waterfall/Agile/Hybrid) is mostly used in ServiceNow - do we have numbers for same?
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3 weeks ago
Hi @YogeshKhatri ,
Great question and Thanks for taking community's suggestion on this.
As you know that ServiceNow SPM supports all the three methodologies natively. In New York I have introduced the progressive UI when the methodology changes from one type to another so yes, it is long supported feature of SPM.
I don't have the exact numbers but I have seen all the three methodologies being used in the customer base.
Out of three, pure Agile is used less and it is because it is not just the methodology but the discipline and the need of pure agile way of execution in an organization.
In my experience Hybrid methodology is the most commonly used methodology because most of the large enterprises still have PMO style governance structure but need agile style execution at the team level ; having said that, the selected methodology depends on the type of the work being performed.
For example:
Waterfall is selected by the companies when their projects require the strict sequential governance.
Agile is mainly selected by the product teams, software development teams. They get benefitted by the scrum style execution managing their backlogs for releases and executing the stories (tied to epics) in sprints.
Hybrid is the dominant approach for the companies where planning and governance follow the waterfall methodology so that the PMO can manage the timeline and budget; they can use the PMO dashboards and reporting, on the other hand development teams can execute in agile sprints. In this methodology - the execution teams can easily work in the Agile development 2.0 and project can link to these stories \ epics being executed in Agile Development 2.0
As I mentioned I don't have the official numbers for each of the methodology, but I believe this link will share more insight on the three methodologies natively supported by Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM).
Thank You!
Namita Mishra

