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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Mobile Development — Smooth Sailing Or Titanic Voyage?

Assessment: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Demand for the creation of new mobile applications is increasing rapidly — will you be ready to meet these new challenges? If you think that satisfying business demands for mobile apps simply...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Business People Play Critical Roles On Business Technology Project Teams

Tell Your Partners To Remove The Do Not Disturb Sign And Join The Team

Despite the fact that organizations initiate most technology projects to meet business goals, project teams find it difficult to engage business stakeholders at the right times and in the r ight...

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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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Understand The Requirements Of The Customer Life Cycle For Applications And Data

Take A Strategic Approach To These Requirements For Greater Impact

The old concept of the marketing funnel has become passé, requiring firms to make a dramatic shift to focus on the full customer life cycle and customer relationship. To help enable the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Meet The New Business Architect

The key to a successful business architecture (BA) practice is developing strong business architects. Technology architects can be successful with narrow domain knowledge, but business architects...

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Report:It's Time To Move Your Business Analysts To An Adaptive, Tool-Kit-Driven Requirements Approach

Are you still using prescriptive, template-driven business analysis and requirements approaches? Do you continue to see projects delivered late and over budget? Incomplete or incorrect software...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Get To Know Your 2010 Business Analysts

In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Thinking Lean: How Much Requirements Documentation Is "Just Enough"?

Forrester's AD&D Community Offers Relevant Insight And Pragmatic Advice

In traditional app dev shops, business analysts (BAs) create standardized, lengthy, text-heavy Microsoft Word documents to represent software requirements, but creating and consuming this...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Exploit The Real Requirements Life Cycle

Think "Outside The Project" To Deliver Value From The Customer's Point Of View

Recent attention to improving software quality through better requirements has led to a lot of debate about exactly what "requirements" are and how we can extract the most value from them. While many...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Align BAs And Quality Assurance Professionals To Drive Higher Quality — And Happier Customers

The need to develop applications that return high value at a reasonable cost is driving applications organizations to assemble highly productive teams that can deliver high-quality outcomes....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Pragmatic Practices To Improve Software Quality

Incremental Changes Can Have A Big Impact On Quality

All software has bugs. Application development teams do the best they can to avoid and fix them. But developing quality software is hard. Why? Virtually all application development teams are squeezed...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Requirements Tools Market Overview, Q2 2010

The Market Expands And Diversifies To Address Diverse Problems

The requirements tools market has expanded and diversified as the business problems that compel teams to consider adopting a requirements tool have multiplied and intensified. Gone are the days in...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Right Tools. Write Requirements. Right On!

A Market Overview Of Tools That Support Improved Software Requirements

Smart application development leaders are catching on: Good software requirements are critical to delivering high-quality software. Requirements tool vendors are getting the message too. They're...

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Report:Business Analysts: Seize The Opportunity To Deliver Compelling User Experiences

Make A Big Difference To Your Organization By Focusing On Its Customers

Is anything more important than how users experience your Web sites and software applications? If your customers can't effectively and efficiently meet their goals by using your sites and apps, they...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Your Ten-Step Program To Improve Requirements And Deliver Better Software

High-quality software requirements sit at the foundation of good software deliverables — those that meet business needs, satisfy customers, and fit into existing technology architectures. Yet...

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Report:Tech Industry Requirements Focus On What To Build More Than Why

Get Past The Execution Challenges, Focus More On Market Requirements

In the technology industry, requirements not only guide development plans, they also explain and justify decisions regarding delivery of products and services. Forrester's research shows that...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Learn More About Your 2009 Business Analysts

These data charts highlight more data from the Forrester Research/IIBA Q2 2009 Global Business Analyst Online Survey, first reviewed in the July 23, 2009, "Your 2009 Business Analysts: Know Them To...

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Report:Case Study: The IRS Got Audited, Leading It To Improve Software Requirements Practices

When faced with a mandate to improve its software requirements practices, the United States Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Business Rules and Requirements Management (BRRM) team stepped up to the...

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Report:Your 2009 Business Analysts: Know Them To Grow Them

A recent survey of approximately nine hundred current business analysts (BAs) indicates that business analysts are alive and kicking in organizations of all sizes and in all industries. They report...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SOA Security 2009: Requirements And Design

Understanding Your SOA Security Requirements And Iterative Solution Design

In industry discussions about SOA, external integration is treated as the benchmark indicator of SOA security maturity: If it's secure enough for external integration, SOA must be secure. By that...

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Report:When Looking For Product Insights, Not All Social Media Are Created Equal

The Choice Of Social Media Depends On The B2B Question Asked

"Location" — the "L" in Forrester's PLOT method for applying social media to product management decision-making — deserves special attention. The landscape of social media is now so...

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Report:PLOT: A Social Media Strategy To Make Better Development Decisions

Social Media Compel Product Managers To Learn A New Requirements Discipline

Social media provide a wealth of information that might help technology vendors make better decisions about products and services. To maximize the value of the answers, and the speed with which...

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Report:Social Media Lower The Risks Of Bad Requirements

Product Managers Must Master The Inbound Side Of The Groundswell

To date, technology vendors have based product decisions on meager, skewed, and unreliable information, with predictable results. Schedule slips, user rejection, and other expensive problems are...

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