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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Do's And Don'ts Of Building IT Organization Charts

The reporting structure of an IT organization affects how roles operate in that shop. The structure must support the goals of the organization and be consistent with its culture and capabilities....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Next-Generation Portfolio Management: Strategic, Lean, And Delivery-Enabled

Vision: The Portfolio Management And PMO Playbook

Before IT can transition to business technology (BT) and become an effective partner with the business, the two groups of leaders must completely rethink the way they plan and execute — and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Your Company Needs A Mobile Organization

Organization: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile touches every part of your business. Customers crave apps to access your core services. Employees keep work moving forward from any location — meeting room, kitchen table, or soccer...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:How To Get Ready For Change

Put "People Change" Front And Center

Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Map The ECM Journey To A Successful Project

Road Map: The Content Management Playbook

This report outlines the enterprise content management (ECM) road map for enterprise architecture professionals working on content management. An ECM road map that maps the ECM components to a time...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Role Of The Business Analyst In The Age Of Agile Development

With the advent of Agile development, business analysts (BAs) have to prove their worth in a developer-centric environment where their role may be seen as nonessential. BAs need to navigate the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Rightsource Your Agile-Lean Ecosystem

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...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Fuse Technology, Innovation, And Business Change In Your Planning Cycle

Planning Methods: The EA Method Playbook

In most businesses today, technology has become a strong driver for innovation. The fruits of technology innovation are experienced all across the business model — from the point of customer...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Govern Your Lean And Agile Adoption

Policy And Procedures: The Agile And Lean Playbook

While companies are increasingly adopting Agile, for the most part these processes remain limited to the single project level. Agile thought leaders have not provided much clear or detailed guidance...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Assessing Your Company's Application Outsourcing Maturity

Assessment Framework: The Services Sourcing Playbook

As more companies look to external IT services providers to help them both innovate and optimize, they must assess how mature their outsourcing capability is to utilize the right engagement models...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Create A Living BT Road Map

Road Map: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

The early stages of the business technology (BT) strategic planning framework identify business strategies and associated technologies to support the business cycle. These stages involve identifying...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Project-Based ERP For Service Delivery Professionals

A growing number of organizations delivering project-based services to customers seek business apps that more fully reflect that project focus and apply it to business-processes-powering project...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Service Architecture: Shaping The Services Within Your Business Model

Business Services Unify Portfolios And Help Firms Manage Business Change

Business capability maps are an excellent conceptual tool for planning and assessment. But your business runs on the physical implementation of people, process, information, and technology, and while...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Management Suite Dashboards: Samples For Application And Project Portfolio Management Roles

An enterprise architecture (EA) tool can be a significant investment because of both the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:PMOs: Stop Being The Office Of "No"

What Business And IT Can Learn From Each Other To Work More Effectively

Project management offices (PMOs) fail far too often: 50% fail within two years, primarily due to a lack of executive support and the PMO's failure to deliver real value. Prevent this outcome by...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's 3PM; Do You Know Where Your Portfolio Is?

Today more than ever, organizations must make visible the connection between strategic planning and execution. Creating a balanced portfolio of projects is an appropriate start, but all too often...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Dual Project Managers: Dream Team Or Two-Headed Monster?

Forrester's AD&D Community Weighs In On Projects With Multiple Project Managers

Over the past few months, we reached out to The Forrester Community For Application Development & Delivery Professionals to find out if a project can succeed with more than one project manager (PM)....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Why Apps, Infrastructure, And PMO Roles Fail

Part 2 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Failed

There are a number of roles in IT that can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA-PMO Partnership Cultivates Innovation Opportunities

The next-generation project management office (PMO) adds to the traditional PMO skill set of managing demand, providing oversight, and ensuring compliance by innovating through new practices and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:What Business Process Pros Need To Do About Demand Management

Demand management (DM) describes an enterprisewide optimization approach for business processes and technology usage. When managed well, DM will help business process executives effectively resolve...

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