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Blog:Portfolio With A Capital "P"

In the last couple of years, an increasing number of technology companies have discovered, or rediscovered, or redefined their own portfolio. Here are a few examples of where you can see this new...

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Blog:Thought Leadership: Measuring Our Success

Now that we've posted the outline for our study of thought leadership in the technology industry, it's a good time to take stock of our success so far. It's important to start the...

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Blog:Agility At Scale Requires Both Discipline And Creativity

A common question we analysts hear from our clients is, "How do we scale our Agile efforts?" Now, let's be clear: the question is not how to get Agile to work in a large project. Sure, there are...

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Report:Tech Industry Labs Provide Critical Innovation Support

At Each End Of The Innovation Process, You Need A Different Kind Of Lab

In the technology industry, two types of labs exist, each contributing to different parts of the innovation process. The stereotypical lab, focused on pure research, is the source of good ideas from...

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Blog:Agile, Lean, & DevOps Share An Enemy: Complexity

Complexity is the nemesis of application developers everywhere. While software products' complexity may be, to a great extent, unavoidable, we don't have to complicate software development to...

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Blog:Thought Leadership Requires Going Beyond The Innovators

Every office has a gadget fetishist. These people can be indicators of technologies that might be interesting, but they're not 100% reliable. It's in the nature of experimentation to make...

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Blog:The Unrecognized Success Of The Requirements Tool Market

The just-published overview of the requirements tool market is, at bottom, a story of unrecognized success. The requirements tool market has grown rapidly along several measures, including the...

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Blog:Microsoft's Blah Tablet Strategy

Steve Ballmer's presentation to financial analysts this Thursday deserves a special place in the business wing of the Museum of FUBAR. After months of Apple iPad commanding the attention of, oh,...

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Blog:Dev Teams Juggle Compliance, Agility Without Major Injuries

Now that Agile has moved into the mainstream, it is encountering a whole new raft of challenges, including compliance. The word on the street for at least the past couple of years is that trying to...

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Blog:Would You Know A Product If You Saw One?

Over the weekend, I attended the Silicon Valley Product Camp, one of the yearly un-conferences for product managers in the US, Canada, and beyond. During one of my sessions, a look into the role of...

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Report:Agile Teams Should Use A Productized Approach To Compliance

Follow The Road Map Toward Agile Success At Achieving Compliance

The application development and delivery teams that have achieved the greatest success in balancing Agile practices with compliance requirements treat compliance as a product. From building the...

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Blog:SaaS Removes Excuses For Flying Blind

A recent conversation with executives from Clarizen, a software company in the work/project/task management realm, shows how profoundly SaaS can change the innovation process in technology companies....

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Blog:Product Management Without Portfolio Management Has Limited Value

Practically everyone who visits the Vatican stops to take a picture of the Swiss Guards. Ditto for the Queen's Guard at Windsor Castle, the Royal Life Guards at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen,...

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Blog:The Paranoid Style Of Developer Support

As someone who has worked in development teams, I take it for granted that not everyone on the team has the same needs and interests. A twenty-something Java developer, fresh out of college, is...

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Blog:Software Development And The Transparent Company (Part I)

A new business model is emerging, and it depends heavily on software development. Many companies are dropping many of the traditional barriers between product development and customers. Without...

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Blog:If Serious Gaming Can Improve Politics, Why Not The Technology Business?

As readers of this blog know, I see a lot of benefits in using serious gaming to make better product and development decisions. Consulting firms like Enthiosys and Booz Allen Hamilton use different...

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Blog:The First Question About ALM Tools Isn't About The Tools

We've been talking about the next stage of application life-cycle management (ALM) for several years now. As my colleague Dave West argued, the vision of ALM 2.0 is clear, compelling, and...

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Report:High-Value Requirements Are Changing App Dev And Delivery

Requirements Go From Unfortunate Necessity To Strategic Asset

Requirements have undergone a quiet revolution — the conversations have moved from a focus on the high cost of bad requirements to the positive value of good requirements. Not satisfied with...

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Report:Play Around With New Techniques For Requirements Collection

Use Serious Games To Generate New Insights About Your Customer

One of the most popular uses for serious games is requirements collection. Serious games change the rules for conversations about requirements, engaging stakeholders in a new (and, yes, fun) way. By...

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Report:Compliance Is A Hurdle, Not A Barrier, To Agile

Agile Teams Develop Strategies For Being Compliant While Staying Agile

Experience shows that Agile and compliance are not as incompatible as they might seem. Forced to deal with onerous compliance requirements, Agile teams have crafted strategies for dealing with each...

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Blog:When Requirements Failures Become Epic Fails

By now, the arguments for improving product requirements are very familiar – all too familiar. Bad requirements lead to misconceived projects, many of which fail outright. The...

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Blog:Thought Leadership: Incorporating The Voice Of The Customer

Today was our first official update to the research plan (a.k.a. the development document) for our project investigating thought leadership in the technology industry. A quick refresher: this...

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Blog:Attending Agile 2010 Next Week; Are You?

All next week, colleague Dave West and I will be at Agile 2010. On Monday, I'm doing a workshop on the effect of Agile in technology companies, in the rest of the organization beyond the...

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Report:Reduce Agile Uncertainty Over Time

Road Map: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's recommended road map for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you during the planning...

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Blog:Polls Are A Great Prioritization Tool, Except When They Fail Spectacularly

Democracy is great, right? We'd all prefer to have direct participation in the decisions that affect our lives, from which multimillionaire will represent us common folk to which features...