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Itil vs Agile

Priya Pedamkar
Article byPriya Pedamkar

Updated November 20, 2023

ITIL vs AGILE

 

 

Difference Between Itil and Agile

Its organizations are currently very much concentrated on improvement or growing their business very smartly and as fast as possible. Due to fulfilling their criteria, they are continuously following or planning to follow some specific approach which can be in the proper industry standard. In between a lot of business ideology, maximum IT companies planning to follow their business should follow ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and in case of some most valuable or big business industry following frameworks like ITSM (IT Service Management). That kind of framework mainly involved improving the organization’s already provided services and making them too effective in the competitive industry.

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Now improving their services most effectively and quickly, companies are easily able to understand that they have to improve their product quality or, most accurately, they have to plan for building agility. Their main target to introduce some new technologies or methodologies which can make their product or services more attractive and most competitive in the entire market. Now improving this ability by any IT organization, they have to follow proper Agile Software Development policy, which includes basic IT standard features of software development followed by any kind of IT company. The ITIL 4 foundation course can further aid in understanding and using effective IT standards and practices for agile software development. Agile is too popular mainly in the case of working with a cross-functional team for supporting varieties features expected by the end customer, understanding their requirements and providing the solution with following proper agile methodology working with a cross-functional team.

Head To Head Comparison Between Itil and Agile (Infographics)

Below is the top 2 difference between Itil vs Agile

ITIL-vs-AGILE

Key Differences Between Itil and Agile

Both are popular choices in the market; let us discuss some of the major difference:

  1. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) concentrates on improving organization ability for any kind of condition comparing with a different organization and end customer feedback. It clearly provides a proper view for information technology organization what are their week points and what are their strong points, also provide and very intelligent view to the organization higher authority regarding their future perspective on their own product or services provided for a long time compared with a current market scenario in a very fairway. It mainly concentrated on cost already sphered for that specific product, Productivity of that entire organization based on resource strength and yearly earning by the organization, customer satisfaction based on some open question answer, revenue generation by that organization in the last couple of financial years, meeting SLA’s in a proper manner or not. Whereas agile methodologies mainly maintained two-part of characteristics on the above-maintained points related to ITIL. One is concentrating on Productivity and SLA. As Agile considering on deliverables in a proper and perspective manner, it including understanding client multiple requirements in an acceptable manner, distributing the same multiple developer groups based on functionality, preparing requirement understanding documents based on an individual cross-functional team, preparing one final design document, developer developed their codebase, delivering the same individually, merging and maintaining proper cross-functional team deliverables and deliver the same to the end customer for acceptance. It also including SLA maintenance, support on client not accepted features, implementation plan, and post-production support.
  2. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), following some sequential framework, based on that specific sequential framework, is decided and provides one expected view to the organization of their growth or some more attentive upcoming expectations. It first considering the value of the product or support and ensuring developing the right thing based on client expectation, then concentrating on specific design based on end customer feedback or proper experience, always starting their calculation from the current situation or the organization, maintaining a proper resource-friendly environment so that anyone not been overloaded and maintaining a balance between home and work environment, ensuring progress smoothly, observing other or competitor growth directly for an understanding gap or improving points, transparency needs to be maintained between all the resources in the entire organization, collaboration requires especially in case of cost functionality deliverables, avoid complexity in any business critically better to keep it simple as much as possible. Whereas Agile methodologies could not be able to follow any sequential framework, as any kind of small changes or minimum impact has to be delivered in a very short period of time, which creates instability of the entire system.

Itil vs Agile Comparison Table

Below is the topmost comparison between Itil vs Agile

The Basis Of comparison 

ITIL

AGILE

General ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, mainly one of the designed frameworks follow by maximum IT organization for their growth and any kind of upcoming view. This is kind of one framework which provide business details in exact view to all the IT organization and as well as it provided customer feedback in details for any of the specific product or services provided by that organization, which directly helps that organization growth and as well as any kind of future plan for upgrading their product or services as per customer expectation. It always focuses on some specific require measurement continuously and comes with some suggestive improvement require to improve end product or service quality which actually delivered to the end customer. Agile is one of the popular frameworks using mainly in development and fulfilling customer varieties expectations very smartly by a cross-functional team. Any IT organization’s main agenda should be customer last feedback and as well as quality improvement of multiple functional flawless deliveries. Agile methodology mainly ensures this delivery quality when end-user or customer comes with some multiple functionalities where different developers team needs to be work and find out the ultimate product or specific service, in that case. Agile methodology resolves this cross-functional multiple teams very smartly by following some common universal guidance.
Principles
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) follows below popular guidance:
  • Concentrating or focusing on the value of the product or service.
  • Based on experience, design the product or services.
  • Start from the current situation.
  • Concentrating on progressing, Observing and hard work quality.
  • Maintained transparency, collaboration, and simple integration.

 

Agile methodologies followed some basic guidance like below:
  • More interactive with specific processes and tools.
  • Maintaining comprehensive documentation properly.
  • We collaborate with the end customer.
  • Change in the plan needs to be responded to properly.

Conclusion

ITIL vs Agile both are very popular methodologies followed by all the IT organization directly or indirectly. ITIL ensures the entire business growth of any IT organization and provides future plan very smartly by giving some understandable view. Whereas Agile ensures smoothness delivery to the end customer, which automatically helps ITIL for capturing company growth and upcoming future.

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