University of Twente Student Theses

Login
As of Friday, 8 August 2025, the current Student Theses repository is no longer available for thesis uploads. A new Student Theses repository will be available starting Friday, 15 August 2025.

Methodology as a Service (MaaS)

Aņikevičs, Germans (2025) Methodology as a Service (MaaS).

[img] PDF
2MB
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.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:54 computer science
Programme:Business Information Technology MSc (60025)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107554
Export this item as:BibTeX
EndNote
HTML Citation
Reference Manager

 

Repository Staff Only: item control page