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Joseph serves Customer Intelligence Professionals. He is a leading expert on web, mobile, and application analytics, online testing and targeting, and tag management. His research focuses on the generation and application of marketing intelligence from digital channels to deliver highly relevant and engaging online and multichannel customer experiences.
Prior to joining Forrester Research, Joseph was the vice president of platform strategy at Alterian, where he focused on product strategy, product marketing, analyst relations, and corporate development. Prior to Alterian, he was vice president of marketing and product development at MarketerNet. Joseph began his career at Experian, where he held a variety of roles spanning technical project consulting, business development, and product management.
Previous speaking experience includes presenter and master of ceremonies duties for a variety of technology and services vendor customer events, the National Center For Database Marketing, Infopresse Web Analytics, Teradata Partners, Click Summit, eMetrics, and Xchange. Joseph serves on the advisory board for the Northern Illinois University College of Business Interactive Marketing program and is a member of the Digital Analytics Association.
Joseph graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a B.S. in business administration and majoring in marketing. He is Pragmatic Marketing Certified for Product Management Knowledge.
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...
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...
Hi all, My colleague and friend Mike Gualtieri wrote a really interesting blog the other day titled "Agile Software Is A Cop-Out; Here's What's Next." While I am not going to discuss the...

In 2009, the technology industry entered a new cycle of technology innovation and growth, powering a multiyear period of technology investment predicted to last through 2016: the business technology...
Business Impact: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs...
Pragmatic Adoption Of SOA, Agile, Open Source, And Cultural Change Tactics Yielded Improved Business-IT Relationships And A More-Agile Organization
The Vatican Bank, or Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), transformed its application development and delivery organization over a three-year period to become: 1) agile — to respond to...
Think of a medieval fortress: It was originally used for a small army, it has walls nine meters thick, and it’s surrounded by buildings hundreds of years old. Upon entering, you are confronted...
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...

The past few years haven’t been kind to software developers. Having the equivalent of a US master’s in computer science and having spent the first 20+ years of my professional life...
DevOps is a movement for developers and operations professionals that encourages more collaboration and release automation. Why? To keep up with the faster application delivery pace of Agile. In...
Strategic Plan: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's strategic plan of the solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you plan a...
There is no doubt that Agile growth in the market is significant, and the growing daily number of inquiries I’ve been getting on Agile from end user organizations in 2012 gives me the...
Since my earlier blog post on optimizing your software development sourcing strategy, we have published a report I co-authored with Mike Gilpin on this same topic: "Update Your Application...
An Empowered Report: Empower Delivery Teams To Succeed Despite Constant Change
Application development and delivery organizations are at the heart of the shift to business technology. But while coupling app delivery more directly with the business brings the opportunity to...
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...
Use this tool to assess your organization's readiness for, or maturity in, Agile testing.

Early this year, on January 15, I published our first research on testing for the Agile and Lean playbook. Connected to that research, my colleague Margo Visitacion and I also published...