MASTER Assignment
Methodology as a Service (MaaS)
Type : Master M-BIT
Period: February - July, 2025
Student : Aņikevičs, G. (Germans, Student M-BIT)
Date Final project: July 9, 2025
Supervisors:
Abstract:
Platform as a Service (PaaS) platforms have become synonymous with fast time-to-market software development, substantially reshaping how applications are built, tested, and delivered. With a software development process fundamentally different from conventional environments, established software development methodologies are employed without adequate adaptation. Recognising this gap, this thesis introduces Methodology as a Service (MaaS), which is a hybrid software development framework tailored for PaaS development environments. This study demonstrates MaaS through an application case study on the metadata-driven PaaS ServiceNow platform to illustrate its practical application, pave the way for future PaaS-centric software development methodology innovation, and determine if the benefits of a PaaS-oriented software development methodology led to better outcomes compared to non-PaaS oriented methodologies. Evaluation conducted through expert surveys produced exploratory results indicating improvements across software development outcomes, such as collaboration, resource efficiency, end-user involvement, performance, and delivery, when compared to established traditional, Agile, or other hybrid methodologies, paving the way for future research and development of PaaS-centric software development methodologies.