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Report:What's Ahead For PPM?

Open Yet Integrated Is the Name Of The Game

In 2011, project portfolio management (PPM) solutions bring more options to potential customers; however, these choices also force application delivery leaders to think longer term before investing....

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Report:Are You Ready To Transform Your PMO?

Tackling Today's Challenges To Prepare For Tomorrow

As the economy continues to recover, firms are looking at how to prepare for growth while maintaining a lean approach. Because of this, project management offices (PMOs) are continually evolving...

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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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Report:Consistent Performance In Agile Teams Must Include Testing

Performance Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Agile disrupts everything that we know about testing, including what practices to use, what skills are needed, how to set up the testing organization, and how to leverage testing tools. Testing is a...

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Report:The PMO In An Agile World: Can't We All Just Get Along?

Much has been written about the benefits of Agile development, and it has been proven that Agile development teams consistently deliver higher-quality applications faster than those that follow...

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Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Some PMO And Project Management Definitions?

Could you please define and provide some discussion around: 1) governance versus assurance, and 2) the business owner/sponsor role versus the program manager role?

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Report:Sustain Agile With Formal And Informal Training

Change Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the change management for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you...

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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:Business People Play Critical Roles On Business Technology Project Teams

Tell Your Partners To Remove The Do Not Disturb Sign And Join The Team

Despite the fact that organizations initiate most technology projects to meet business goals, project teams find it difficult to engage business stakeholders at the right times and in the r ight...

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Client Inquiry:Can You Point Me To Some Research On Enhancements?

Is there an industry standard definition for an "enhancement"? How do companies typically size enhancements? These would be system enhancements, which are bound by time and money.

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Client Inquiry:Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) And Metrics To Measure Service Provider Performance

Can you provide a list of sample metrics to use to monitor vendors during the course of a software development project? We would like to measure the performance of the vendor on an ongoing basis for...

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Blog:PMOs – Think Outside Of The Box. Will Kanban Work For You?

Gaining visibility into the big picture of an IT portfolio feels like one of the unsolvable challenges, and it’s not for lack of trying. Dashboards abound, and PPM tools are becoming more...

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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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Report:Next-Generation Portfolio Management: Strategic, Lean, And Delivery-Enabled

Vision: The Portfolio Management And PMO Playbook

Before IT can transition to business technology (BT) and become an effective partner with the business, the two groups of leaders must completely rethink the way they plan and execute — and...

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Blog:CSC Acquires AppLabs - Building Bench Strength In The Testing-As-A-Service Market, Especially If CSC Looks At The Bigger Picture

CSC announced today that it is acquiring AppLabs, a US-based IV&V testing vendor. At first glance, it's a win, maybe a win for both sides. CSC states that one of the reasons that it...

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Blog:Deltek Announces Its Intent To Acquire Maconomy: The PSA Segment Of Project-Based Solutions Is Alive And Well

Deltek’s announcement today of its intent to acquire Maconomy has the potential to vault the vendor’s position as a potential leader in the project-based solutions (PBS) space. For...

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Report:Align BAs And Quality Assurance Professionals To Drive Higher Quality — And Happier Customers

The need to develop applications that return high value at a reasonable cost is driving applications organizations to assemble highly productive teams that can deliver high-quality outcomes....

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Report:Outsourced Testing: Customers Get The Best Value When Vendors Think Outside Of The Box

Outsourced testing is here to stay — but the situation is changing. In previous years, the decision to outsource testing was primarily cost driven; however, the decision to outsource today must...

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Report:Successful PPM Implementations Require Commitment

Three Steps Are All You Need To Make It Work

Product portfolio management (PPM) implementations are not for the faint of heart — the changes an organization incurs by introducing new processes and tools can easily go awry if it doesn't...

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Report:Involve Your PMO To Find The Right Match For Innovation Opportunities

Traditional project management offices (PMOs) manage demand for project work, provide oversight for large program implementations, and ensure compliance. The next-generation PMO, however, uses these...

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Report:It's 3PM; Do You Know Where Your Portfolio Is?

Today more than ever, organizations must make visible the connection between strategic planning and execution. Creating a balanced portfolio of projects is an appropriate start, but all too often...

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Report:Case Study: Google Hits The Mark With uTest

Crowdsourcing Enables Realistic Testing Across Multiple Platforms

Making sure that a company has optimum test coverage for customer-facing applications in a fast-paced environment can be impossible if you don't plan carefully. When you throw mobile into the mix,...

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Report:Shift Focus From Testing To Software Quality Management For Business Transformation

Want To Save Time And Still Innovate? You Have To Be Strategic

While no one argues that quality is not vital to software delivery, too many organizations still take a tactical approach. Testing, in all of its parts, ensures that an application works; however, if...

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Blog:Daptiv Acquired By Parallax Capital Partners = Faster Maturation Of PPM SaaS, But Does It Signal The Next Wave Of Consolidation?

On July 27, 2010, Parallax Capital Partners announced that it was acquiring Daptiv, a SaaS PPM vendor. Forrester customers who are current Daptiv customers or are considering Daptiv as a PPM vendor...

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Report:Case Study: Infosys Technologies Helps Develop A TCOE For Telecom New Zealand

To build a test center of excellence (TCOE) on time and on budget, Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) knew it needed a partner with the expertise required to ensure success. TNZ was seeking a good cultural...

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