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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:CIO Perspectives On App Dev: We Need New Approaches To Deliver Applications Faster

Many CIOs are on the hot seat to innovate by delivering increasingly critical applications more quickly. To keep up with the accelerated pace of business, CIOs and application development and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's Time To Move Your Business Analysts To An Adaptive, Tool-Kit-Driven Requirements Approach

Are you still using prescriptive, template-driven business analysis and requirements approaches? Do you continue to see projects delivered late and over budget? Incomplete or incorrect software...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Govern Your Lean And Agile Adoption

Policy And Procedures: The Agile And Lean Playbook

While companies are increasingly adopting Agile, for the most part these processes remain limited to the single project level. Agile thought leaders have not provided much clear or detailed guidance...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Make Software Delivery More Responsive To The Business

Executive Overview: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Most firms are experiencing rapid and fundamental change in both business and technology. How do you cope? You must transform your software delivery approach — minor tweaks to traditional...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Rightsource Your Agile-Lean Ecosystem

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Agile and Lean transformations depend to a great extent on cultivating a good sourcing ecosystem. The decisions you make around the partners and providers supporting your transformation and projects...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Get To Know Your 2010 Business Analysts

In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Developing An Agile Business

Executive Overview: The Agile Commerce Playbook

Consumer behavior is changing. Customers are becoming increasingly connected and adopting growing numbers of touchpoints as they discover, explore, buy, and engage with brands and products. And...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Agile Systems Integrators: Plausible Or Paradoxical?

Mixing Agile Methods And Systems Integrators Requires An Artful Approach

Agile methods have become popular because, on average, they produce better outcomes. Agile's focus on learning by execution and a condensed set of engineering practices increases the cadence of...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:AppLabs Finds A Home At CSC

Addition Of Strong Testing Capability A Boon For CSC Clients

After months of speculation about who would or could acquire independent testing vendor AppLabs, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has stepped up and made the company an offer it can't refuse....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:How Holistic Is Your Application Delivery Transformation?

This tool is a complement to the report "Transforming Application Delivery" and includes the typical assessment questions you should ask to identify areas that need the most improvement focus. The...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Strategies For Testing Mobile Apps

Benchmarks: The Mobile App Development Playbook

This report outlines the benchmarks aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on mobile development. This report is designed to help you...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Build A Corporate App Store Into Your Workforce Computing Strategy

I&O Should Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store

Today, employees are using personally owned smartphones and tablets at work, and firms are leveraging an array of mobile applications to interact with employees, customers, partners, and suppliers....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:App Dev Teams Dispel The Compliance Boogeyman

The Real Effects Of Compliance Defy Expectations

Compliance does have an effect on application development and delivery — but not in the way that most people assume. In some aspects of software development, such as choice of methodology,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Early Adopters Embrace Hadoop For Operations And Customer Analytics

Experiences Of Big Data First Movers

Forrester interviewed three organizations that have deployed Hadoop to support customer-facing processes, the back office, and even their research and development operations. Although these early...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Adapting Your eBusiness Strategy For The Era Of Agile Commerce

To bring eBusiness strategies in line with a vision of agile commerce — where companies serve customers seamlessly across touchpoints — we find that many firms are in the midst of massive...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013

An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track

Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Microsoft Shows How Product Managers Can Use Serious Games

An Empowered Report: Microsoft Uses Productivity Games To Test Windows And Office Communicator

For product managers, getting workers to help test new products has always proven to be a challenge, making finding an engaging inducement for participation the Holy Grail. As a panacea, a small but...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Drive Business Insight With Effective BI Strategy

Executive Overview: The Business Intelligence Playbook

How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Adaptive Planning Delivers Marketing Accountability

The Benefits Of A Flexible And Result-Focused Approach To Marketing Planning

Marketing planning has changed little in the past century. It's essentially a linear process built on the development of rigid 12-month plans built around brand and channel metrics. This approach is...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Four Steps To Your Agile Future

Strategic Plan: The Agile Commerce Playbook

Today's multichannel company faces enormous pressure to adapt to changing customer expectations and emerging competitive threats. Legacy channel-centric approaches and siloed organizations can no...

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