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:Mobile Authentication: Is This My App? Is This My User?

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    Report:Kill Your Data To Protect It From Cybercriminals

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    Report:Optimize Your GRC Program For 2012 And Beyond

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

    Benchmarks: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

    Throughout the year, Forrester analysts engage in hundreds of discussions with vendors and end users about security architecture and operations. Analysis of B2B survey data from Forrester's...

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    Report:The 15 Most Important Questions To Ask Your Cloud Identity And Access Management Provider

    During the past three years, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions have become a viable and cost-effective alternative to on-premises, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or...

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    Report:Show Me The Loot!

    Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends

    In this age of the empowered, tech-savvy worker, more and more employees are bringing their unsecured devices to work and using them for work activities. To prepare for this tide of devices,...

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    Report:Understand The State Of Identity And Access Management

    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....

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    Report:Benchmarking Your Enterprise Mobile Device Operations Initiatives And Plans

    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...

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    Report:Rethinking DLP: Introducing The Forrester DLP Maturity Grid

    Assessment Framework: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

    Data loss prevention or protection (DLP) — depending upon your usage — is both one of the hottest topics and most difficult challenges among information security professionals today. In...

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    Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

    Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

    Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

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    Report:Understand Security And Risk Budgeting For 2013

    Benchmarks: The S&R Practice Playbook

    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:Apps Everywhere: Understanding The Need For Mobile Application Management

    Integrate Mobile Application Management Into Your Mobility Strategy

    Proactive IT executives are extending their mobility strategies beyond deploying and managing mobile devices and platforms with primarily corporate email access to include a wide range of mobile...

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    Report:Protect Your Competitive Advantage By Protecting Your Intellectual Property From Cybercriminals

    Business Impact: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

    Protecting customer data such as credit card information, log-in credentials, and personally identifiable information is an important part of enterprise IT security. Such data fuels a large and...

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    Report:Dissect Data To Gain Actionable INTEL

    Forrester's Data Security And Control Framework

    Forrester segments the problem of securing and controlling data into three areas: 1) defining the data; 2) dissecting and analyzing the data; and 3) defending and protecting the data. We refer to...

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    Report:The CISO's Guide To Virtualization Security

    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...

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    Report:Survey Employees To Target Mobility Improvements

    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,...

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    Report:Understand The State Of Data Security And Privacy: 2012 To 2013

    Benchmarks: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

    This report outlines the benchmarks for Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to develop their organization's data security and privacy strategy. Throughout the year,...

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    Report:Navigate The Future Of The Security Organization

    Future Look: The S&R Practice Playbook

    This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on building a high-performance security program and organization. This report is designed...

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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:The Business Process Outsourcing Market In Japan

    Industry Changes Will Drive Opportunities For Vendors

    The business process outsourcing (BPO) adoption rate among Japanese organizations has always lagged that of North America and Western Europe, despite the relative maturity of the Japanese market. But...

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    Report:The Data Center Services Market In Japan, 2013 To 2016

    Providers Must Address Energy Efficiency And Governance To Thrive

    Over the past 18 months, all of the significant data center players in the Japanese market -- telcos, vendors, service providers, and systems integrators (SIs) -- have been aggressively investing in...

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