Margo VisitacionVice President
Agile Methodologies, Application Development, Application Development Processes & Tools, IT Management, Portfolio Management & PMOs, Project Portfolio Management, Quality Assurance, Testing & Test Management
Margo is a vice president serving Application Development & Program Management professionals. She is a leading expert in software delivery. Margo focuses on the areas of project management, project portfolio management, PMO, software testing, quality assurance, and Agile test methodologies. She has been with Forrester for eight years, during which time she has covered project and program management, project portfolio management, project-based organizations, integrated IT management, requirements management, quality assurance, and testing processes.
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. As part of the industry management role, she was the track lead and oversaw content development for the public sector track at Primavera's annual conference, which is attended by approximately 3,000 clients. 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. Additionally while at ADP, she was a senior client support analyst, managing the technical relationship of many of the company's regional retail firms.
Margo attended Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
Making The Case For The Next-Generation PMO October 16, 2009 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
Conquering Your Fear Of Project Portfolio Management Tools August 28, 2009 BookmarkPDF
Hybrid Testing Centers Of Excellence April 13, 2009 (Rating: 8) BookmarkPDF
Test Management: The Secret Weapon In Your Arsenal To Build Dynamic SQA March 24, 2009 (Rating: 7) BookmarkPDF
PPM Tool Selection: Look Beyond Core Functions March 05, 2009 (Rating: 10) BookmarkPDF
The Forrester Wave: Project Portfolio Management, Q4 2009 December 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Best Practices: Resource Management January 2010 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Margo is an avid golfer and a gourmet cook.
