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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.
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.
Margo attended Rutgers University in Camden, N.J.
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Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends
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Benchmarks: The Identity And Access Management Playbook
This report provides a spending and technology adoption benchmark for security and risk (S&R) executives looking to develop their organization's identity and access management (IAM) strategy....

This report provides insight into corporate mobility adoption trends based on results from Forrester's Forrsights surveys of IT mobility decision-makers and end user workers in North American and...
Assessment Framework: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
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Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
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Business Impact: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
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Forrester's Data Security And Control Framework
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Get Off The Bench And Look Into Your Virtual Environment
In today's data centers, IT often virtualizes new applications and workloads by default. Virtualization is the norm; deploying a physical server is the exception. The technology is mature and...

Benchmarks: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the benchmarks of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on mobile security and operations initiatives. This report provides a benchmark of budgets,...

Benchmarks: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
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Future Look: The S&R Practice Playbook
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