Agile Development

Add prerequisite and dependent items for stories in Agile Development 2.0 so that you can visualize these dependencies on the scrum planning board and plan your sprints accordingly.

Add members who would work on the scrum stories and tasks.

Add sprints to your scrum teams directly from the scrum program planning board without having to navigate to another module.

Add teams to your scrum program to assign work and track the progress of the work.

Review the list of items in your triage board and add them to your Agile Development 2.0 backlog. Based on their priority, you can schedule them in the upcoming sprints for your product teams to work on them.

Use the related links and related lists on the Story form for the actions that you need to perform on your story in Agile Development 2.0, such as adding scrum tasks, dependencies, or splitting the story.

Track and update the status of your stories and scrum tasks of the current sprint from your mobile device using the Agile Development v2 mobile app.

The Agile board is a landing page where you can perform key actions of the scrum process. These actions include managing your backlogs, planning your sprints, and tracking the sprint progress.

Learn about the relationship between tables that Agile Development 2.0 uses to manage the agile process, represent releases, and represent product backlog items to be included in a sprint.

Reference information to provide additional details about Agile Development 2.0 application such as the fields, related lists, user roles, tables, guidelines, and domain separation information.

This is an overview of domain separation and how it works with Agile Development 2.0. Domain separation enables you to separate data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical groupings called domains. You can control several aspects of this separation, including which users can see and access data.

Visually analyze the progress of the stories of an epic over a given period using the Epic Dashboard.

Prior Release Dashboard provides data visualization on scope, actual burnup and burndown, and forecast trends of previous releases. Analyze the data and plan the work for upcoming releases.

Prior Sprint Dashboard provides data visualization on scope, actual burndown and burnup, and forecast trends of previous sprints. Analyze the data and plan the work for upcoming sprints.

Learn the process that is used to manage product development efforts in Agile Development 2.0, such as creating a product or tracking a sprint or release.

Track the progress of your stories and analyze scope changes in the current release using Agile 2.0 Release Dashboard.

Track the progress of your stories in the current sprint and forecast sprint completion using the Sprint Dashboard.

Team Dashboard provides a visualization of the team's progress on stories over a given period. It provides team predictability charts and helps you plan the team's capacity for the upcoming sprints. In addition, it provides details of all the team members.

The ServiceNow Agile Development application helps you deliver software projects more efficiently by managing and tracking software development life-cycles using an iterative, incremental, and flexible approach.

ServiceNow Agile Development 2.0 provides an agile software development environment for product-based or project-based efforts, using the Scrum framework. Implement a pure agile approach over the entire life cycle of a product, or a hybrid approach using agile methods within a traditional project structure.

Use the Sprint Tracking tab of the Agile board in Agile Development 2.0 to track the progress of scrum tasks for the stories from your current sprint.

Use the Sprint Tracking tab of the Agile board in Agile Development 2.0 to track the development of the stories from your current sprint.

Learn the different methods that organizations could use to plan their backlog and deliver stories.

Learn how to use the keyboard to move and rearrange Agile Development 2.0 stories in the Backlog and Sprint Planning tabs of your Agile board.

Associate monetary and non-monetary benefit plans, so that you can capture the potential benefits (financial and non-financial) accrued by the epic for the hybrid benefit plans.

Scrum is one of the popular methodologies of Agile Development, which includes a fixed sprint schedule and regular requirements testing. These activities are performed by common roles such as product owner, scrum master, and group members. Learn about the basics of Agile Development process.

Use the business stakeholder role to read and retrieve data from any table of the Agile Development 2.0 and Scrum Programs applications to generate reports.

Several types of components are installed with activation of the Agile Development 2.0 plugin, including tables, user roles, and properties.

Convert an existing release team to an assignment group of type Agile Team so that you can assign them to a product or a release.

Create filters to define which stories appear in your backlog in Agile Development 2.0.

Create a product to represent a feature or functionality important to customers. A product can contain themes, epics, and stories that describe these enhancements from the perspective of a user.

Create a release to start associating the stories and scrum tasks of your product development to the release in Agile Development 2.0.

Create scrum tasks in Agile Development 2.0 to break down a story into manageable pieces for your team to work on. You can create one scrum task at a time or multiple scrum tasks at once.

Create high-level definitions of your requirements in the form of stories in Agile Development 2.0. Manage and track your stories by associating them to a product, project, or release and by assigning them to an assignment group.

Create a theme in Agile Development 2.0 to group stories of different products together for an abstract goal.

Create multiple sprints at once for one or more Agile Development 2.0 assignment groups to save time.

Create an assignment group of the type Agile Team so that you can assign these groups to a product or a release.

Define the high-level requirements of the features that you want to develop by creating epics in Agile Development 2.0.

Track issues associated to your product or feature by reporting defects in Agile Development 2.0.

Capture enhancement ideas for your feature or product as enhancement requests in Agile Development 2.0 so that you can review and prioritize them later.

Categorize epics into epic backlogs by defining a set of filters according to your preferences. While planning your scrum program, you can use these epic backlogs to plan for only those stories that belong to the epics in this backlog.

Epic benefit plans capture the potential benefits accrued by the epic when the epic is executed. Create a monetary benefit plan to specify the estimated benefit in a category spanning one or more fiscal periods.

For your Agile Development 2.0 stories, create batches of different types of scrum tasks at a time, to save time.

Epic benefit plans capture the potential non-financial benefits accrued by the epic when the epic is executed. Create a non-monetary benefit plan to specify the estimated benefit in a category spanning one or more fiscal periods.

Create a scrum program to plan sprints and track the progress of the multiple scrum teams that are working together.

Configure indicators to reflect your customizations on the Agile 2.0 dashboards.

Configure story states to reflect your customizations on the Agile Development 2.0 dashboards.

Customize the Burnup, Burndown, and Cumulative Flow Diagram reports of your Agile 2.0 dashboards according to the custom states of your scrum stories.

Create defects for the issues that are reported for your product using Agile Development 2.0. You can then create stories for these defects so that your teams can start working on resolving them.

Enable scheduled data collection to begin collecting scores on new data automatically. Data collection jobs automatically collect scores for automated indicators and breakdowns.

Create enhancement requests for different areas of your product in Agile Development 2.0. You can then create stories for these requests so that your teams can start working on developing them.

Learn about the Scrum methodology framework, typical activities, and artifacts that are used in ServiceNow Agile Development 2.0.

View the labor cost expenses based on the resource assignments for your epics.

Access the Agile Development mobile app to track your sprints, stories, and tasks.

Well-written stories are easy to understand by all developers and members of team members, such as Testing or Documentation.

Understand the roles, tables, business rules, and UI macros that are installed when you activate the Scrum Programs plugin.

Integrate third-party applications such as Microsoft Azure DevOps or Atlassian Jira with Agile Development 2.0, so that the planned and executed work can be synchronized in both applications.

Create, update, and rearrange your epics by using a centralized view of epic backlogs on Agile Board.

Learn the requirements to create and manage your assignment groups in Agile Development 2.0.

Manage your product backlog from a centralized location called the Agile board in Agile Development 2.0. Add stories to a personalized backlog and prioritize them as needed.

View, edit, and update the details of scrum tasks that were created for the stories of the current sprint on your mobile device.

View, edit, and update the details of stories assigned for the current sprint on your mobile device.

Improve your Agile processes and practices using preconfigured dashboards with data visualizations from the Platform Analytics Content Pack for Agile 2.0.

Plan work for sprints, using a centralized view on Agile Board, of multiple scrum teams that are working together on a scrum program.

Streamline your sprint activities such as creating, editing, and completing sprints, or adding stories to sprints, using the Sprint Planning tab of the Agile board.

Use a centralized view on Agile Board to plan work for the teams that are working on your scrum program.

An example of project-based development and delivery model in Agile Development.

Validate that Agile Development 2.0 still works after you make any configuration change such as apply an upgrade or develop an application. Copy and customize these quick start tests to pass when using your instance-specific data.

Use the related lists in the Release form for the actions that you need to perform for your release in Agile Development 2.0. These actions include associating products, stories, or assignment groups.

Use the related lists on the Theme form for the actions that you need to perform for your theme in Agile Development 2.0. These actions include associating stories or epics with the theme.

Use the related lists in the Group form for the actions that you need to perform for your assignment group in Agile Development 2.0. These actions include adding sprints and editing group members.

Use the related lists in the Product form for the actions that you need to perform on your product record in Agile Development 2.0. These actions include associating releases, themes, epics, stories, or assignment groups.

Use the related lists in the Test version form for the actions that you need to perform on your test in Agile Development 2.0. These actions include verifying the test results, viewing other associated test versions and test sets.

An example of release-based development and delivery model using Agile Development.

Understand if your work would be completed by the planned end dates by reviewing progress status of your Agile Development 2.0 epics.

For a story whose tests are marked ready to be run, run those tests and execute all the test steps. Do this using the Sprint Tracking tab of the Agile board in Agile Development 2.0.

Plan and track the work of multiple teams that work together, either toward a common short-term outcome or on an ongoing basis.

Set up your own triage board to view and manage records that are important to your product. These records include problems, incident tasks, defects, or change requests, viewable at one place easily.

Track the progress of stories, scrum tasks, and tests for the current sprint from a single consolidated view on the Agile board in Agile Development 2.0.

An example of a standalone project development and delivery model in Agile Development.

Learn about the fields of the Test version form. Use this form to create and run tests for a story in Agile Development 2.0.

The ServiceNow Agile Development — Unified Backlog application helps you maintain a centralized backlog for records of different task types, such as defects, problems, or enhancements. Prioritize different task types from one location, and automatically create stories for these records, saving time.

Update a monetary benefit plan breakdown record that specifies the estimated and actual benefits, at a granular level, for specific fiscal periods.

Update a non-monetary benefit plan breakdown record that specifies the estimated and actual benefits, at a granular level, for specific fiscal periods.

Customize UI scripts by overriding methods in empty implementation (Impl) classes.

Learn how to use the features of Agile Development 2.0 to efficiently manage your product development life cycle.

Upgrade to the latest layout of Agile 2.0 dashboards using Solution Library.

Analyze results of the tests that you run on Agile Development 2.0 stories. Troubleshoot failures so that the story can be moved to completion.

The Work Progress Status for Agile Teams application provides you with indicators such as estimated completion date and progress status (green, yellow, red) for all your Agile Development 2.0 epics.