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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Project/Program Portfolio Management, Q4 2012

How The Top 10 Providers Stack Up In A Newly Divided Market

Demand for business agility fuels adoption of Agile development techniques that can deliver differentiating business technology (BT) solutions within accelerated time frames. Agile development...

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Report:Application Retirement — It's Time To Put The Elephant In The Room On A Diet

John Lennon's song "Beautiful Boy" contains a phrase apropos to the topic of applications retirement: "Life is just what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." In an applications...

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Tool:Shortages In Technical Skills Are Acute Enough To Affect Technology Plans

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Tool:Shortages In Packaged Applications Skills Are Highest For Nontechnical Skills

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Report:The Application Portfolio Management Landscape — Combine Process And Tools To Tame The Beast

Business leaders demand that IT leaders "do more with less" to free resources for innovation and growth. Applications professionals are turning to application portfolio management (APM) to meet those...

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Blog:Your Apps Portfolio In 2020: How Do You Get There From Here?

In Champions Of Change: The App Dev & Delivery Role In 2020, we began to think about the business climate in the year 2020 and how it affects the application development and delivery role....

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Report:How To Become A BT Leader — And Leave IT Order-Taking Behind

Three Cases Show The Path To App Delivery's High-Value Career Choices

How application development and delivery professionals serve the business is changing, calling for new delivery methods, organizational models, roles, and processes. The change: App delivery pros...

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Tool:Leadership, Management, And Analytical Skills Are The Top "Soft-Skills" Hiring Challenges

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Blog:DevOps Conflict - Do You Feel It?

Applications development people can't stand the Luddites in the operations group, and ops people hate those prima donas in apps dev - at least that's what we are led to believe. To...

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Report:What Comes Next After Application Assessment?

Application Assessments Are Only A First Step Toward Rationalization

Application rationalization is a hot topic for many applications professionals and also draws the attention of enterprise architects and CIOs. Most organizations begin by compiling an inventory of...

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Tool:Baby Boomer Retirement Will Increase The Competition For Hiring

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Report:Assessing Your Applications — Metrics That Matter Drive Better Rationalization Decisions

Applications professionals have never been busier, yet business leaders lament how little they receive in return for their IT investments. Both perceptions have merit, but they only serve to divert...

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Report:Determine If You're Agile And Lean Enough

Assessment Framework: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean transformation. This report is designed...

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Tool:Major Off-Host COBOL Ecosystem Product Categories And Vendors

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Tool:Example Output From Forrester's Lean And Agile Maturity Assessment Tool

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Blog:Dell Bolsters Its Apps Mod Street Cred By Acquiring MAKE Technologies And Clerity

Dell made two bold moves last week that bolster its apps modernization street cred. Since MAKE Technologies and Clerity Solutions may not be household names to you, here are our...

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Blog:What Is The Definition Of An "Application"?

What is the definition of an "application"? We are "applications development and delivery professionals" - surely we have this question nailed, don't we? The question keeps coming up in...

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Blog:What Would You Ask Your Future Self (2020)?

Following on the earlier seeds planted by Champions Of Change: The App Dev & Delivery Role In 2020 and Your Apps Portfolio In 2020: How Do You Get There From Here? imagine you have the opportunity...

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Blog:The Great Platform Debate Is "Shipping Up To Boston" At #ADF11!!!!

Sorry folks but as a Murphy, I just can't resist the temptation - Irish rockers "The Dropkick Murphys" sing a song called "Shipping Up To Boston" - and that is exactly what I and my...

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Tool:Shortages In Programming Skills Will Shift Only Slightly Over Next Three Years

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Report:Proof Points For Mainframe Application Migration

Answering The Classic Clash Question: "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?"

Previous Forrester research outlined a framework for deciding whether migrating your applications from the mainframe platform makes sense by identifying the factors that enter into a well-reasoned...

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Report:BT 2020: To Thrive In The Empowered Era, You'll Need Software, Software Everywhere

We've entered the empowered era: an age in which power has shifted from corporations and government institutions to people — people who have been empowered by software-fueled technology. The...

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Report:Define "Application" Based On Your Context To Avoid False Starts In Your Rationalization Efforts

Debate over the definition of the term "application" is needlessly stalling application rationalization, application portfolio management (APM), and application benchmarking efforts, based on the...

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Tool:Compensation And Benefits And Recruiting Are Formalized Functions In Most Firms

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Blog:As Application Rationalization Grows Hotter In 2011 - Vendors Will Play Catch-Up

In his report on the top technology trends to watch in 2011 to 2013, my colleague Gene Leganza called out application portfolio management (APM) as one of a number of "planning and analysis tools to...