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Jeffrey S. Hammond

VP, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

Blog: Application Development & Delivery Blog

Jeffrey is a software development veteran, with more than twenty years of experience in various development, product management, strategy, and marketing roles. He is a leading expert on mobile development, modern application architecture, application life-cycle management, and open source policies and projects. He helps Application Development & Delivery teams improve their productivity while building creative, high-performance cultures.

Previous Work Experience

Jeffrey has been with Forrester since 2006. Jeffrey joined Forrester from IBM's Rational unit, where he created award-winning application development tools, including Rational Rose/J Edition, Rose/CORBA, and Rose/PowerBuilder. Prior to joining Rational Software, Jeffrey was part of Accenture's Advanced Systems Group, where he led application development projects at Fortune 500 clients.

Education

Jeffrey holds a B.S. in economics (finance) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Coverage:

Application Infrastructure Technologies, Architecture & Technology Strategy, Customer Experience Management, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Application Platforms, Open Source Strategy, Programming Languages, Rich Internet Applications, Social Computing, Software Modeling, Web 2.0, Web Development Tools

Jeffrey S. Hammond's Research

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization
Jeffrey S. HammondMay 06, 2013
Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastruct...
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For Security & Risk Professionals
Report: API Management For Security Pros
Eve Maler, Jeffrey S. HammondApril 05, 2013
Security professionals increasingly must respond to the needs of business owners exploring web application programming interfaces (APIs) as a new channel for recognizing business value. APIs can...
- Downloads: 125
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Forrester Wave™: API Management Platforms, Q1 2013
Eve Maler, Jeffrey S. HammondFebruary 05, 2013
In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of application programming interface (API) management platform vendors, Layer 7 and WSO2 — and their solutions — rose to the top, followed by In...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Future Of Mobile Application Development
Jeffrey S. Hammond, Julie A. AskJanuary 17, 2013
With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/se...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Build Five-Star Mobile Apps
Jeffrey S. HammondNovember 07, 2012
There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps out there, and they're all competing for the same mobile users. If you want to reach your customers with a custom mobile app, then you want to make...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Define Your Mobile Development Strategy
Jeffrey S. HammondAugust 24, 2010
Developing mobile applications used to be an arcane activity pursued by highly specialized developers, but no more. The surge in popularity of Android devices, BlackBerries, and iPhones has appl...
- Downloads: 3855
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Forrester Wave™: Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010
Jeffrey S. Hammond, Dave WestMay 05, 2010
In Forrester's evaluation of Agile development management (ADM) tool vendors, we found that IBM and MKS led the pack with the best overall current feature sets. Atlassian, CollabNet, and Microso...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Top Five Changes For Application Development In 2010
John R. Rymer, Jeffrey S. Hammond, Mike GualtieriJanuary 04, 2010
Niccolò Machiavelli said it best: "Never waste the opportunities created by a good crisis." Over the past year, the Great Recession has forced everyone in IT to think differently about wher...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010
Jeffrey S. Hammond, Boris EvelsonAugust 10, 2010
Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Mobile Architecture Imperative
Jeffrey S. Hammond, Ellen DaleyAugust 01, 2008
The past eight years have shown little business adoption of mobile applications beyond wireless email and a few key applications. As a result, firms have been able to limp along without comprehe...
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