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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Project Portfolio Management, Q4 2009

This Mature Market Is Showing That Diversity Needs To Be The Name Of The Game

Forrester evaluated 14 project portfolio management (PPM) vendors using 80-plus criteria and found that CA, HP, Planview, Oracle, and SAP led the pack because of versatile offerings combined with...

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Report:The Testing Tools Landscape: 2010

Functional Testing Tools Are Not Enough

Gone are the days when application development and delivery teams could cavalierly ask the business to pick two: cost, time, or quality. The business wants and needs all three. Delivery teams have...

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Report:Making The Case For The Next-Generation PMO

Broader Visibility And Flexible Frameworks To Tackle More Work Without Killing The Budget

There isn't a business case for the "old school" project management office (PMO): We've tried it, and quite often it didn't work. Today's PMOs are under pressure to be business process change agents...

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Report:Best Practices In Resource Management: Put The Right People On The Right Work At The Right Time

In a 2008 survey of the Application Development & Program Management Research Panel, 16 of 26 respondents stated that resource allocation and capacity planning are challenging and that their current...

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Report:Four Steps To Optimize Your Application And Project Portfolios In Volatile Economic Times

Economic instability around the globe is forcing organizations to react: Some organizations will have to cut costs to survive, some organizations will proceed as usual, while still others will take a...

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Report:The PPM Implementation Road Map

How To Avoid Common Pitfalls That Can Stymie Your Progress

Implementing project portfolio management (PPM) is part science, part art. To be successful, companies must remember a few key points — PPM is not a revolving project list but a practice that...

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Report:PPM Tool Selection: Look Beyond Core Functions

Industry, Governance, And Compliance Play A Larger Role

For organizations that invest in project portfolio management tools (PPM), comparing core functionality won't provide a clear picture of the best solution to fit their needs. Governance, compliance,...

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Report:Seven Pragmatic Practices To Improve Software Quality

Incremental Changes Can Have A Big Impact On Quality

All software has bugs. Application development teams do the best they can to avoid and fix them. But developing quality software is hard. Why? Virtually all application development teams are squeezed...

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Report:The Dawn Of Dynamic Software Quality Assurance

Business Uncertainty, Risk, And Constant Change Are Altering The Way We Test

In today's uncertain economy, companies cannot tolerate waste or unnecessary risk. Application development organizations must supply software that is of high quality and meets business objectives in...

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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:Hybrid Testing Centers Of Excellence

In Dynamic SQA, Leveraging Internal Expertise Is Critical

As outsourcing increasingly becomes a regular occurrence in today's software quality assurance (SQA) organizations, application development pros are wondering how to combine technical expertise and...

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Report:The Next-Generation PMO: The Latticed Model Enhances Enterprise IT Visibility

As mentioned in Forrester's October 16, 2009, "Making The Case For The Next-Generation PMO" report, traditional project management offices (PMOs) are moving beyond a traditional project-only focus to...

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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:Leverage PMO Skills To Build Program Management Competency

Programs may spawn dozens or hundreds of projects, each of which accomplishes a unit of work that is meaningful to the business and may take guidance from a project management office (PMO). Programs...

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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:Conquering Your Fear Of Project Portfolio Management Tools

New Tool Options Overcome The Barriers That Threaten Your Investment

In today's world, organizations must balance the demands that a tight economy and low risk tolerance drive without missing opportunities to advance business. Understanding the real status of projects...

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Report:A Few Good (Agile) Testers

Introducing Agile Testing Brings Quality Without An Army Of Testers

One inquiry that Forrester hears frequently is: "what is the correct ratio of testers to developers?" Quality assurance (QA) managers often want to know how many testers should cover developers, and...

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Report:The State Of The PMO In 2011

Challenges Breed Opportunities

Forrester Research and the Project Management Institute (PMI) recently hosted a survey regarding the state of the project management office (PMO) in 2011. The survey garnered 693 respondents, and the...

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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: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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Report:Test Management: The Secret Weapon In Your Arsenal To Build Dynamic SQA

Any software quality assurance (SQA) manager who has presided over a testing cycle understands the importance of creating an organized test plan — it's a great way to make certain that testing...

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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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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: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:Plan For Continuous Agile And Lean Evolutions

Business Plan: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the business plan for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs plan for Agile...

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