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Blog:Dev Teams Juggle Compliance, Agility Without Major Injuries

Now that Agile has moved into the mainstream, it is encountering a whole new raft of challenges, including compliance. The word on the street for at least the past couple of years is that trying to...

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Blog:Agile And Compliance? Now That's A Product!

In my previous post about Agile practices and compliance requirements, I described the first of two big surprises encountered while doing the research. Compliance, as it turns out, is not quite as...

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Blog:Thought Leadership: Outline Ready For Comments

For those of you who have been following our thought leadership research project, we're now in the final stages of this project. I've posted the proposed outline here for your comments. If...

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Tool:Requirements Maturity Is The Best Measure Of Success

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Blog:Product Management: You Get What You Pay For

Another excellent post from Scott Sehlhorst, this time pointing out that, even without product managers, product management still happens. Scott’s post is a response to Jason Calcanis, the...

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Blog:SaaS Removes Excuses For Flying Blind

A recent conversation with executives from Clarizen, a software company in the work/project/task management realm, shows how profoundly SaaS can change the innovation process in technology companies....

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Report:Reduce Agile Uncertainty Over Time

Road Map: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's recommended road map for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you during the planning...

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Blog:Product Marketing: From Explanation To Innovation

Congratulations, product marketers: You've been a critical part of the innovation process. Sorry to break it to you, product marketers: On average, technology vendors stink at the phase of...

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Report:App Dev Teams: Consider Playing Around With Serious Games

War Games Help Top Leaders Build Better Strategies

An increasing number of application development teams are using serious games to make better decisions about their work. Where other new techniques, such as Agile, have helped teams work better,...

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Tool:For ERPs, Web Sites Provide The Opportunity For Communicating Thought Leadership

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Blog:Without Vision, You Can't Deliver Value

  Recently, the city of San Jose used a serious game, Buy A Feature, to address some tough budgetary challenges. Since serious games have relevance across a wide range of contexts,...

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Blog:Thought Leadership: Measuring Our Success

Now that we've posted the outline for our study of thought leadership in the technology industry, it's a good time to take stock of our success so far. It's important to start the...

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Blog:Shoveling Ideas Into The Requirements Engine

[Another interesting finding about the requirements tool market, from research by Yours Truly and Mary Gerush. For other observations about this very interesting market, click here and here.]  ...

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Blog:Adaptability May Turn Out To Be Agile's Most Important Virtue

Every year, people talk about the future of IT, which is shorthand for, "Some big changes may be in the works." In the last year, we've had to revise that sentence to read, "Some big changes are...

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Blog:Thought Leadership Requires Going Beyond The Innovators

Every office has a gadget fetishist. These people can be indicators of technologies that might be interesting, but they're not 100% reliable. It's in the nature of experimentation to make...

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Blog:In The Tech Industry, Complex Is A Polite Word For Fat

Ever since I got an iPad, I've been eager for the update to the upgrade to the iOS4 operating system that premiered on the iPhone months ago. The ease of use of the iPad erodes, grain by grain,...

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Blog:Software Requirements Are Where We Define Value

Revolutions take two forms. The most familiar kind is the noisy, conspicuous, disjunctive event that marks a clean break from the past. Yesterday, George III was our monarch. Today, he's not. The...

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Report:Elevate The ALM Discussion To The Business Plane

Making A Compelling Argument For ALM Investment

Implementing a more effective application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy will depend on making a compelling business case for investing in changes. Buying new ALM tools, hiring new staff, and...

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Blog:Thought Leaders Are Good Story-Tellers

Since there's no systematized, look-it-up-in-your-economics-textbook definition of thought leadership, people generally lapse into metaphor when they try to describe the concept. The language...

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Report:For Developers, Dog Food And Champagne Can't Be The Only Items On The Menu

Internal Pilots Are Vital, But They Have Their Limitations

Internal pilots are a necessary part of nearly every development effort. Therefore, "eating your own dog food" and "drinking your own champagne" are phrases familiar to even software development...

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Blog:Thought Leadership Project: Moving Briskly

Since earlier this week, when we launched our research project on thought leadership in the technology industry, we've already received some very valuable feedback in the Forrester community,...

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Tool:Web Sites Matter For PLM Vendors, Too

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Report:Productization Satisfies Tech Producers And Consumers

App Dev Teams Productize Their Work To Drive Greater Value

Productization is a difficult discipline, but application development and delivery teams across a wide range of scenarios see it as an imperative. In some cases, productization helps teams that are...

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Blog:Would You Know A Product If You Saw One?

Over the weekend, I attended the Silicon Valley Product Camp, one of the yearly un-conferences for product managers in the US, Canada, and beyond. During one of my sessions, a look into the role of...

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Blog:Why Do We Consider Only One Option When Building Technology?

Outside the technology industry, engineers sometimes build multiple prototypes before selecting one particular design. Rather than finding the defects of one proposed design, discarding it, and...