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title: Manage app development
description: Govern app development on the ServiceNow AI Platform.
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topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Plan your application development, Exploring professional development, Building pro-code applications, Developing your application, Building applications]
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# Manage app development

Govern app development on the ServiceNow AI Platform.

## Source control

To enable simple, future proof collaboration for applications, use source control integration. Source control allows an organization to adopt industry standard tool sets while following modern application development and team management paradigms. See the [Metadata source control in ServiceNow Studio](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/servicenow-studio-classic/source-control-in-servicenow-studio.md) documentation for more information.

Source control platforms, such as GitLab and GitHub, align an organization with current and future best practice trends in ServiceNow application development and management. However, some organizations may not be ready to adopt the current source control integration.

-   Branch merging is not currently supported.
-   Corporate Git repositories behind a firewall cannot be directly integrated without additional firewall configuration.

## Delegated development

Delegated Development allows designated users without the admin role to develop or deploy applications on the ServiceNow AI Platform. Users with the application-specific admin role or the system-level admin role can delegate application development to designated developers at the application level. [Delegated developer roles](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/delegated-development-and-deployment/c_DelegatedDevelopment.md) have fewer privileges than admin roles but are still allowed to develop applications.

**Note:** Delegated development is only available to privately scoped applications.

For more information about building applications, see [Build My First Application](https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/learn/courses/utah/app_store_learnv2_buildmyfirstapp_utah_build_my_first_application).

**Parent Topic:**[Plan your application development](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/plan-your-app-development.md)