Stage	NO PROCESS	WATERFALL	AGILE	CLOUD NATIVE	NEXT
Culture	Individualist	Predictive	Iterative	Experimental	Self-Organised
Product Management	Arbitrary	Long-Term Plan	Feature Driven (Feature Factory)	Data Driven	AI Driven
Delivery	Irregular releases	Periodic Releases	Continuous Integration	Continuous Delivery	Continuous Deployment
Process	Informal	Top-Down	Agile (Scrum/Kanban)	Design Thinking + Agile + Lean	Distributed
Team	No Organisation, Single Contributor	Siloed	DevOps	SRE	Internal Supply Chains
Architecture	No Guiding Principle	Monolith	Distributed Monolith	Microservices	Functions
Reliability	Inconsistent SDLC	Established Simple SDLC	Established Software Quality Model	Managed Reliability Fault Tolerant Platform	Automated Rollback & Automated Failover
Provisioning	Manual	Scripted	Configuration Management	Orchestration	Serverless
Infrastructure	Single Server	Multiple Servers	VMs	Immutable Infrastructure	Optimal Infrastructure
Security	Reactive/Ad-hoc	Review on Release	Regular Review Within SDLC	Continuous Security	Continuous Protection and Remediation