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Overview........................................................................................................................ 3
Platform Support Team................................................................................................... 3
ServiceNow Executive Sponsor................................................................................... 4
ServiceNow Platform Owner........................................................................................ 4
ServiceNow Platform Architect..................................................................................... 5
ServiceNow Application Developer.............................................................................. 6
ServiceNow System Administrator............................................................................... 6
ServiceNow Quality Assurance Engineer...................................................................... 7
ServiceNow Business Analyst...................................................................................... 8
ServiceNow Trainer...................................................................................................... 9
ServiceNow Project Manager/Scrum Master................................................................ 9
Platform Support Team Responsibilities..................................................................... 10
ServiceNow Platform Support Team Considerations..................................................... 11
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The purpose of this document is to identify the recommended roles, responsibilities and
considerations that enable organizations to effectively manage, optimize, and extend the
ServiceNow platform.
Executive Sponsor
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Platform Owner
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Owner is responsible • Aligns business issues with solutions that ServiceNow offers and communicates to
your business peers
and empowered with • Creates and enforces the vision and strategy for the program managing the platform
the authority to make and the alignment with solving business issues
decisions that impact • Leads and actively participates in governance meetings and activities
• Partners with the Platform Owner and supporting team to ensure that capabilities of
the platform and does the platform and team are aligned with the vision and strategy
so in alignment to your
Recommended training:
business strategy and
• ServiceNow Foundations eLearning Course (six self-paced, online modules)
governance.
ServiceNow Platform Owner
The ServiceNow Platform Owner is a senior leader who has overall accountability of the
ServiceNow platform. This individual provides leadership and oversight to the Platform
Support Team, ensures team alignment to business strategy and the ServiceNow
roadmap, and is actively involved in the overarching governance of the platform.
Overall, the ServiceNow Platform Owner is responsible and empowered with the authority
to make decisions that impact the platform and does so in alignment to your business
strategy and governance.
Responsibilities may include the following:
• IT Financial Management
Recommended training:
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governance decisions. • Provides architectural controls and analysis of impacts for new requirements
• Identifies opportunities to combine similar solution needs
• Scripting
– JavaScript
– Web Services
– HTML
– CSS
– Jelly
Recommended training:
• Scripting in ServiceNow
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Recommended training:
• Scripting in ServiceNow
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• The ability to develop and forge strong relationships and build consensus among
competing stakeholders
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ServiceNow Trainer
The ServiceNow Trainer creates material and delivers training that ensures effective and
The Project efficient use of ServiceNow applications. The Trainer works with the Platform Support
Team to understand application functionality, and create and deliver learning programs in
Manager tracks and established corporate formats.
communicates project The ServiceNow Trainer benefits from the ServiceNow Foundations eLearning Course
and ServiceNow System Administration training. This individual may also take advantage
status, serves as of ServiceNow Fulfiller training that includes Train-the-Trainer offerings where ServiceNow
an escalation point Education Services experts develop training content that is then delivered by the
ServiceNow Trainer.
to resolve Platform Responsibilities may include the following:
Support Team • Collaborates with key subject matter experts and assesses group and individual
obstacles, and works training needs
to deliver project work • Plans, develops, and delivers comprehensive learning programs
Recommended training:
• Single point of contact with knowledge of every aspect of Platform Support Team work
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ServiceNow program. • ServiceNow Foundations eLearning Course (six self-paced, online modules)
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will significantly impact • The organization contains clearly defined process ownership that resides outside the
Platform Support Team, but is available on an as-needed basis.
your Platform Support • Platform Support Team members are properly trained.
Team needs. The • Resources may be dedicated or shared service resources, but are allocated sufficiently
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