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	Diego Lo Giudice Vice President, Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Agile Methodologies, Application Architecture, Application Development, Application Development Management, Application Development Metrics & Benchmarks, Application Development Organizational Structure, Application Development Processes & Methodologies, Application Development Processes & Tools, Application Life-Cycle Management, Application Modernization, Application Outsourcing, Application Platforms & Programming Strategy, Application Portfolio Management, Architecture & Technology Strategy, EA Definition & Maintenance Processes, EA Governance Processes, EA Organizational Structure, EA Roles & Responsibilities, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Domains, Enterprise Architecture Practices, IT Consulting, IT Management, IT Services, IT Strategy Consulting, Lean Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source Strategy, Outsourcing, Portfolio Management & PMOs, Project Portfolio Management, Requirements Definition & Management, SOA & Web Services, SOA Strategy, Sales, Marketing, & Product Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Modeling, Sourcing & Procurement, Sourcing Strategy & Execution

Research Focus

Being at Forrester since July 2005, Diego primarily contributes to and advises on Forrester's offerings for Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He partners with Forrester's application leaders globally and is a leading expert on software development practices covering topics such as Agile development, Lean software development, transformation of application development, SDLC, requirements management, open source strategies, AD&D metrics and benchmarks, software modeling, and application modernization/innovation.

His 25 years of IT experience, in addition to application development, bring expert advice to SOA change management programs, project and application portfolio management, enterprise architecture programs and IT management areas, IT strategies assessments, EA value and metrics, IT-business alignment, application management, and sourcing strategies and comparisons. He has seasoned experience in complex mission-critical project and client engagement management.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to joining Forrester, Diego held international management positions covering various roles, such as director consultant at METAGroup; head of Agile product development for advanced reuse methods and technologies at Quartersoft; regional VP and director for consulting at Genesis/IONA where he helped many clients transition to "distributed applications"; enterprise architect and project/product manager participating in various Pan European projects; and starting as a software engineer developing with AI tools and early graphical user interface technologies at Olivetti.

Diego has also been very active in global open software standards consortia such as OMG, contributing to the early specifications of middleware standards such as CORBA and to model-driven architecture. He has been a frequent speaker and panelist at many European conferences on software development.

Diego has published various research reports on open source, software reuse, semantic web, and object technology, including the book Practical Experience in Building Expert Systems.

Education

Diego received a master's degree in computer science from Pisa University in Italy, and he specialized in artificial intelligence through on-site courses at Stanford University and SRI Palo Alto during a two-year working internship with Olivetti in the US.

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Did You Know?

Diego's greatest hobby is gardening, but he is also an advanced scuba diver, a good enough skier, plays tennis, and hikes in The Alps. A big family man!

Languages Spoken

English, Italian