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Agile Project & SDLC

Agile Project & SDLC runs delivery the agile way, wired directly into the value stream rather than sitting in a silo. Teams plan from a single backlog, break work into sprints, and track progress on Scrum and Kanban boards while roadmaps and milestones keep stakeholders aligned on the bigger picture. Because every item lives on ServiceCore's shared data model, a story, bug, or epic carries its links with it — the changes it triggers, the services it affects, and the configuration items it touches all stay connected as the work moves.

What it does

Built for the way agile project & sdlc should work

Agile Project & SDLC runs delivery the agile way, wired directly into the value stream rather than sitting in a silo. Teams plan from a single backlog, break work into sprints, and track progress on Scrum and Kanban boards while roadmaps and milestones keep stakeholders aligned on the bigger picture. Because every item lives on ServiceCore's shared data model, a story, bug, or epic carries its links with it — the changes it triggers, the services it affects, and the configuration items it touches all stay connected as the work moves.

Planning stays grounded in real numbers. Story points and velocity make estimation honest over time, sprint burndown shows whether a commitment is on track, and capacity views compare planned points against the team's actual availability so squads stop over-committing. The full software lifecycle is tracked in one place — from backlog refinement through development, review, release, and verification — giving delivery leads a continuous picture of flow instead of fragmented status updates pulled from separate tools.

The module's real power is in its connections. A backlog item that requires a production change opens a linked record in Change Management, where it inherits CAB approval and the deployment window; the change in turn references the affected services and CIs from the CMDB and Service Configuration Management. Incidents and problems can be promoted straight into the backlog, so operational signals become planned engineering work with full traceability back to the originating ticket. Work breakdown and assignments share the same model as Task Management, and effort feeds Time and Reporting without re-keying.

Aligned to ITIL 4, the module treats delivery as part of the service value chain rather than a standalone project tool. Roadmaps map to service objectives, releases coordinate with the release and deployment practice, and every sprint's output is auditable against the changes and services it produced. The result is agile execution that enterprise governance can actually trust — fast on the team side, traceable on the audit side, with no copy-paste boundary between what was planned, what shipped, and what it affected in production.

  • Backlog & sprints
  • Scrum & Kanban boards
  • Roadmaps & milestones
  • Story points & velocity
  • SDLC tracking
  • Capacity planning
Agile Project & SDLC
Discovery
Build
Beta
Launch
Capabilities

What you can do with it

Backlog & sprints

Maintain a prioritized product backlog and plan it into time-boxed sprints with refinement, commitment, and sprint goals on a single board.

Scrum & Kanban boards

Run either methodology with configurable columns, WIP limits, swimlanes, and drag-and-drop status transitions tied to the underlying workflow.

Roadmaps & milestones

Lay epics and initiatives onto a timeline with milestones and dependencies so stakeholders see delivery sequencing against service objectives.

Story points & velocity

Estimate in points, track rolling velocity and sprint burndown, and use historical throughput to forecast future sprint scope.

SDLC tracking

Follow each item across the full lifecycle — refinement, build, code review, release, and verification — with stage history retained on the record.

Capacity planning

Compare committed points against team availability per sprint to surface over-allocation before the sprint starts.

Benefits

Why teams adopt it

Honest planning

Velocity and capacity views replace optimistic guesswork with evidence, so commitments teams make are commitments they can keep.

End-to-end traceability

Every story links to the changes, services, and CIs it affects, giving auditors and CABs a clean line from plan to production.

One source of truth

Delivery work shares the same data model as operations, eliminating the copy-paste gap between project tools and the service desk.

Faster, safer releases

Backlog work that needs a production change inherits Change Management's approval and deployment controls automatically.

Use cases

Where it fits

1

Incident to backlog

A recurring incident is promoted into a problem, then converted to a backlog item so the permanent fix becomes planned, tracked engineering work.

2

Release-coupled sprint

A sprint that ships a customer-facing feature opens linked changes for each deployable component, coordinating the release within the agreed window.

3

Cross-team roadmap

Delivery leads sequence epics across multiple squads on a shared roadmap, exposing dependencies and milestone risk to stakeholders early.

4

Capacity-bound planning

A team lead checks per-person availability before sprint planning and trims committed points to match real capacity, avoiding spillover.

FAQ

Common questions

A backlog item that requires a production change opens a linked change record, which inherits CAB approval and the deployment window; the relationship is bidirectional, so the sprint board and the change always reflect the same status and affected services.

See Agile Project & SDLC in action.

Book a demo and we'll show agile project & sdlc working alongside the rest of the platform — on one shared data model.