Trends Report

Make Agile Tech Budgets Real And Actionable

How To Use OTTERs, PANDAs, And MOOSE To Manage Your Tech Spending

May 17th, 2022
Margo Visitacion, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Margo Visitacion Vice President, Principal Analyst
Christopher Gilchrist, Principal Analyst
Christopher Gilchrist Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Frederic Giron , Matthew Guarini , Rachel Kwon , Michael Kearney , Peggy Dostie

Summary

Traditional tech budget concepts of “run the business,” “grow the business,” and “transform the business” are obsolete. Businesses need new tech budget and spending categories support and sustain new delivery practices such as outcomes-oriented agile product development, or the continuous update and refresh of existing applications to support new business requirements. In this report, we introduce Forrester’s tech budget categories of OTTERs, PANDAs, and MOOSE, as well as how to calculate them and how to use them to improve tech budget governance and management.

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