Margo Visitacion

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

Margo is a vice president and principal analyst serving Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She is a leading expert in software delivery, focusing on the areas of project management, project portfolio management and PMOs, covering both Agile and traditional methodologies. In addition to her work as a Forrester analyst, she speaks frequently at industry events such as Project World and PMI World Congress. For the last three years, Margo has been on the panel of selecting judges for PMO of the Year.

Previous Work Experience

Margo has 25 years of experience in IT, developing and implementing QA, and project management organizations. Most recently, she was global industry market manager of the public-sector/aerospace and defense markets for Primavera Systems, a leading provider of project portfolio management tools, where she was responsible for developing an integrated go-to-market strategy for Primavera's suite of products. She was a regular contributor to industry trade magazines such as Contract Manager and spoke at industry conferences such as the Project Management Institute's program management and earned value conferences. Margo was also an assistant vice president at BHC (now FiServ) Securities, where she was responsible for creating project office and quality assurance organizations, which managed the IT portfolio and the implementation and testing of the company's client/server and Internet trading systems. Prior to working for BHC, Margo was manager of quality assurance for ADP-BISG, where she was responsible for developing a new testing methodology for ADP's flagship front-office product, Power Partner, as well as other leading-edge brokerage front-end systems. She also led a testing team that was instrumental in the project rollout of almost 25,000 client desktops. Joining Giga Information Group in 1999 as a senior analyst in the project management and QA markets, prior to Forrester's acquisition of Giga, she rose to the role of research director.


Education

Margo attended Rutgers University in Camden, N.J.

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    Report:Understand The State Of Network Security: 2012 To 2013

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    Report:Define A Road Map For Mobile Security And Operations

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    Report:Strategy Deep Dive: Define Your Data

    Rethinking Data Discovery And Classification For Data Security

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    Report:The 2012 Consumer Security Market Landscape: Key Dynamics And Growth Opportunities

    Freeware solutions, device proliferation, consumerization, the app Internet, and new entrants offering adjacent consumer privacy and security offerings have and will continue to change consumer...

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    Report:Understand Security And Risk Budgeting For 2013

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    The global downturn has constrained security budgets for several years now, and chief information security officers (CISOs) have become accustomed to taking on more responsibilities without...

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    Report:An Overview Of The Tech Channel Landscape In Japan

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    Japan is the second-largest IT market in the world after the US, and its channel ecosystem is increasingly becoming broader and more complex. This report provides vendor strategists with an analysis...

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    Report:Determine The Value Of Information Security Assets And Liabilities — Information Security Economics 102

    This is the second in a series of reports providing guidance and new methods for the financial management of information security. The CISO's role is rapidly changing. A few years ago the CISO for...

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    Report:Apply Identity And Access Management Techniques To Consumer Data

    Personal Identity Management

    Customer intelligence (CI) professionals face increasing pressure to give consumers greater control over the data that organizations collect about them. Forrester has published a report predicting...

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    Report:No More Chewy Centers: Introducing The Zero Trust Model Of Information Security

    Vision: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Emerging Managed Security Service Providers, Q1 2013

    Ten Emerging Service Providers That Have The Chops To Be Your Managed Security Service Provider

    In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of the emerging managed security services provider (MSSP) market, we identified the 10 most significant providers in this category — Alert Logic; CompuCom;...

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    Report:Create New Mobile Operations And Security Professionals

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    This report outlines the skills and staffing needs for Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on mobile security and operations...

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    Report:The Risk Manager's Handbook: How To Evaluate Risks To Plan An Effective Response

    Determining Whether, When, And How To Treat Risks

    The goal of a risk management program is to drive effective decisions and actions based on an understanding of how uncertainty may affect objectives. However, even mature programs that have...

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    Report:Assess The Maturity Of Your Mobile Security And Operations Program

    Assessment Framework: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

    This report provides the maturity assessment of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives looking to build their mobile security and...

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    Report:Build The Business Case For A GRC Platform

    Business Case: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook

    As the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform market matures, product vendors struggle to point to credible return on investment figures, and potential buyers similarly struggle when asked...

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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Managed Security Services: North America, Q1 2012

    The Nine Service Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

    In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of the North American managed security services market, we identified the nine significant service providers in this category — AT&T, CSC, Dell...

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    Report:Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Data Privacy Program

    Performance Management: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

    Privacy is one of the most important and emotional issues in information security. Privacy, or the lack thereof, affects a company's management, employees, and most importantly, customers. With the...

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    Report:Develop A Change Plan For Your Security Program

    Stakeholder Needs: The S&R Practice Playbook

    This report maps out the key stakeholders for Forrester's solution for security & risk (S&R) professionals looking to build a high-performance security program and organization. This report is...

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    Report:Forrsights: The New IT Security Buyer Landscape

    Success Requires Vendors To Change Features, Positioning, And Sales Enablement

    Despite the recent spate of high-profile security breaches, many chief information security officers (CISOs) find themselves marginalized by their peers and disconnected from their business's...

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    Report:Assess Your Identity And Access Management Maturity

    Assessment Framework: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

    An identity and access management (IAM) maturity model is necessary for assessing your current state against industry best practices, understanding your performance relative to that of your peers,...

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    Report:Application Control: An Essential Endpoint Security Component

    It's no mystery that antivirus (AV) technologies are fighting a losing battle against an increasingly sophisticated malware threat landscape. Attackers often penetrate user endpoints with new malware...

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    Report:Build A Governance, Risk, And Compliance Strategy Worthy Of Business Consideration

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    Governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) are far too often positions of emergency response. What's worse, as you constantly rush to respond to new mandates, enforce policies, or pull...

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