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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Define The Road Map For Transforming Your App Landscape

Road Map: The Business Applications Playbook

Firms are often torn between forces driving application change or transformation and the overarching desire for cost management. At the same time, they often struggle to deliver projects on time and...

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Report:Build An Agile BI Organization

Organization: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Earlier-generation business intelligence (BI) support centers — organized along the same lines as support centers for all other enterprise software — fall short when it comes to taking...

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Report:Forrester's Agile Testing Maturity Assessment Tool

Use this tool to assess your organization's readiness for, or maturity in, Agile testing.

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Report:Consistent Performance In Agile Teams Must Include Testing

Performance Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Agile disrupts everything that we know about testing, including what practices to use, what skills are needed, how to set up the testing organization, and how to leverage testing tools. Testing is a...

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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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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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Report:Build Five-Star Mobile Apps

Processes: The Mobile App Development Playbook

There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps out there, and they're all competing for the same mobile users. If you want to reach your customers with a custom mobile app, then you want to make sure...

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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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Report:Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?

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Report:Sustain Agile With Formal And Informal Training

Change Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the change management for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you...

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Report:Embrace Holistic Change To Achieve Agile Results

Strategic Plan: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's strategic plan of the solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you plan a...

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Report:Determine If You're Agile And Lean Enough

Assessment Framework: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean transformation. This report is designed...

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Report:Make Software Delivery More Responsive To The Business

Executive Overview: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Most firms are experiencing rapid and fundamental change in both business and technology. How do you cope? You must transform your software delivery approach — minor tweaks to traditional...

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Report:Justify Agile With Shorter, Faster Development

Business Impact: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs...

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Report:Plan For Continuous Agile And Lean Evolutions

Business Plan: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the business plan for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs plan for Agile...

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Report:Revamp Your Organization For Agile And Lean

Skills And Staffing: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the skills and staffing part of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs act...

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Report:Increase Agile Efficacy To Improve Customer Value

Future Look: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs discover Agile and...

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Report:CIO Perspectives On App Dev: We Need New Approaches To Deliver Applications Faster

Many CIOs are on the hot seat to innovate by delivering increasingly critical applications more quickly. To keep up with the accelerated pace of business, CIOs and application development and...

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Report:Productization Satisfies Tech Producers And Consumers

App Dev Teams Productize Their Work To Drive Greater Value

Productization is a difficult discipline, but application development and delivery teams across a wide range of scenarios see it as an imperative. In some cases, productization helps teams that are...

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Report:Application Delivery Must Enter The Age Of The Customer

A Roundtable Discussion With Forrester Analysts

Customers have more power today than ever before. They have tremendous influence and reach through social media, more options and choices for whom to buy from, and high expectations about how they...

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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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Report:Water-Scrum-Fall Is The Reality Of Agile For Most Organizations Today

Manage The Water-Scrum And Scrum-Fall Boundaries To Increase Agility

Organizations are adopting Agile through a combination of bottom-up adoption and top-down change. But the reality of Agile adoption has diverged from the original ideas described in the Agile...

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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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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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Report:App Dev Teams Dispel The Compliance Boogeyman

The Real Effects Of Compliance Defy Expectations

Compliance does have an effect on application development and delivery — but not in the way that most people assume. In some aspects of software development, such as choice of methodology,...

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