For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

OMG! Microsoft Move Boosts Modeling

Rapprochement With Object Management Group Sets The Stage For Progress

by Jeffrey S. Hammond, Diego Lo Giudice, October 8, 2008

With Microsoft's recent announcement that it is rejoining the Object Management Group (OMG), the industry can finally put to rest a protracted debate about the relative value of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and model-driven architectures (MDAs) versus . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Open Source Adoption: Notes From The Field

Adoption Moves Up The Stack, But Concerns Vary By Region

by Jeffrey S. Hammond, Diego Lo Giudice, July 3, 2008

At Forrester's IT Forum EMEA 2008, we met with application development and enterprise architecture professionals from European firms that are actively using open source software and spoke with them about their open source adoption experiences. For most . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Air France Flies High With Model-Driven Development

by Diego Lo Giudice, Mike Gilpin, March 27, 2008

The experience of Air France shows that with a pragmatic approach, a company can introduce model-driven development (MDD) and achieve more rapid, predictable, and repeatable applications. The secret to success? Air France created a simplified version . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Assessing Which Applications To Offshore

A Selection Framework

by Diego Lo Giudice, Stephanie Moore, February 1, 2008

Outsourcing application development and support offshore in a more strategic way is an increasingly important agenda item for IT organizations. Companies have come to realize that they can get more than just labor arbitrage from their outsourcing relationships. . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

The State Of Model-Driven Development

by Diego Lo Giudice, April 17, 2007

Forrester expects model-driven development (MDD) to play a key role in the future of software development; it is a promising technique for helping application development managers address growing business complexity and demand. However, as in all early . . .