Figure 4 Resource Availability, Security, And Skill Development Are Key Challenges The three primary challenges that IT organizations in Malaysia face in fulfilling their tech priorities are lack of resources (30%), security and privacy (27%), and skill development (26%). Lack of resources includes budget constraints, shortages of skilled personnel, and inadequate technology, hindering IT efficiency and alignment with business objectives.

The AI Revolution In Product Development Is Here Historically, technological innovation has led organizations to change their approaches and tactics for product development. Product digitization means that almost every product is now impacted by software development methodologies. Digitization has also enabled the collection of real-time usage data, giving product teams insight into user behaviors and habits.

Figure 1 Supplemental Material Survey Methodologies Forrester’s Portfolio Marketing And Product Management Survey, 2025 Related Research Wield GenAI To Accelerate Product Management And Development Velocity

Forrester’s 2025 data indicates that upskilling security staff isn’t a key priority for security decision-makers; only 22% said that their organization invested in upskilling in response to a breach. However, our data shows that upskilling has a tangible positive impact on incident response. Security decision-makers whose organizations invested in upskilling reported quicker times across all incident alert and response steps.

Ensure Sustained Experience Quality And Innovation Through Intentional Staffing

Job Description A staff engineer is a senior-level engineer who plays a leadership role for more than one engineering team. Some engineers shun management roles; a staff engineering role is the entry leadership role on a career track parallel to management that allows for promotion of senior engineers who prefer technical roles to management. As technical leaders, staff engineers go deep into the technology used by the organization.

The same practices that improve code generation also strengthen planning, validation, collaboration, and lifecycle management. This report examines SDD best practices and provides guidance for executing them.

Forrester’s Agentic Software Development (ASD) Model Diagram showing agentic software development spanning five software lifecycle stages: analyze and plan (business value, user story prioritization, CX, technical debt); design (modularity, user experience, mockups, wireframes, APIs), build and maintain (productivity, creativity, code generation, unit tests, documentation); test (automation, test management, quality, optimization); and deliver (infrastructure as code, release performance, release

Grows development through collaboration. Software development and delivery professionals partner with infrastructure and operations to deliver DevOps. They partner with the business and curate external partner relationships to leverage expertise in areas such as agile services or API management.

This data-driven report outlines important operational benchmarks from Information Services Group (ISG) on budgets, staffing levels, outsourcing, development methodologies, release cycles, and testing for application development and delivery. We share insights in five industries: consumer durables, diversified financials, government, insurance, and retailing.