For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

REPORT: Find And Fix The Gaps In Your Modern Software Delivery

Assessment: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook

May 19, 2017 Diego Lo Giudice, Christopher Condo, Amanda LeClair

Customer-obsessed organizations increasingly expect application leaders to speed and scale software delivery. Many leaders know that they need to improve, but they struggle with what to do and where to start. Different application development and delivery (AD&D) teams face different challenges, but the patterns are consistent across organizations. Forrester's modern application delivery (MAD) assessment model helps app development leaders find the gaps in their processes — and systematically and continuously fix them. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy; most recently, we updated this report to adhere to Forrester's assessment maturity model and align the technology categories to the latest MAD playbook vision report.

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

REPORT: TechRadar™: Continuous Software Delivery, Q3 2016 (Updated)

Road Map: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook

August 2, 2017 Diego Lo Giudice, Christopher Condo, Amanda LeClair

Modern software delivery practices use an automated pipeline in which code is delivered, built, tested, and deployed with limited manual intervention. Because the technologies that enable this pipeline have evolved independently, tool integration is complex. This is an update of our previous analysis of continuous delivery tools for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals; Forrester reviews and revises it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.

For CIO Professionals

REPORT: The Internet Of Things Propels Product Development Into The Digital Era

May 4, 2017 Nate Fleming, Amanda LeClair

Traditional product development — years-long product cycles, stage gate processes, and isolationist policies — hinders companies from successfully developing and delivering products connected to the internet of things (IoT). Just as rising customer expectations for consumer and enterprise applications catalyzed a sea change in software development, the increasing importance of software in IoT products means big changes for product development processes. This report helps CIOs understand the five levers of change for digital product development.

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

REPORT: Get The Most Out Of Distributed Agile Teams

April 27, 2017Amanda LeClair, Jeffrey S. Hammond

Agile methodologies and the spread of co-innovation and co-laboratory spaces presuppose that colocated software development teams are best. But for many shops, 100% colocation is neither achievable nor desirable. Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders favor a global presence and access to partner ecosystems over some of the benefits of colocation. This report illuminates the best practices of AD&D leaders that who work with geographically distributed Agile teams to embrace the oxymoron of "distributed Agile."

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

REPORT: Learn To Innovate From Digital Transformation Leaders

Digital Innovators At Forrester's Digital Transformation Forum 2017 Apply The New Rules Of Digital Business

June 22, 2017Amanda LeClair, Danielle Jessee, Martin Gill

Digital transformation means business transformation. Forrester's Digital Transformation Forum 2017 brought digital business leaders to the main stage to share their unique journeys to and through the transformation. This report provides the lessons learned from digital business pros for applying the new rules of what it means to be a digital business.