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• Blog Four Levers That Drive Cloud-Native Decision-Making

  January 11, 2021 | Jeffrey Hammond

  Happy New Year! As 2020 gives way to 2021, I find my briefing dance card quickly filling up with “YAKS” (Yet Another Kubernetes Solution briefing). It’s to the point where...

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  Webinar Software Development Predictions 2021

  January 11, 2021 | Jeffrey Hammond, Chris Gardner

  As 2020 comes to a close, it is once again time to talk predictions for the upcoming year. This past year, the global pandemic put tremendous pressure on development shops to adapt to new ways of...

• Report Adopt Agile And DevOps To Drive Digital Business Success

  Executive Overview: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook

  January 6, 2021 | Chris Gardner, Jeffrey Hammond

  Every business is now a digital business. Companies are scrambling to respond to consumers' higher expectations and nimbler competitors. Application development and delivery (AD&D) organizations...

• Report Digital Transformation Requires Development Transformation

  Vision: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook

  December 29, 2020 | Jeffrey Hammond, Diego Lo Giudice, Christopher Condo

  Most IT organizations don't have the right operational models to develop and deliver great digital experiences. This report makes a case that digital and software development leaders should take a...

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  Webinar Cloud Computing Predictions 2021

  December 8, 2020 | Dave Bartoletti, Jeffrey Hammond

  As 2020 comes to a close, it is once again time to talk predictions for the upcoming year. This past year, the global pandemic reinforced the tremendous value and necessity of cloud computing...

• Forum Technology & Innovation Global

  Adapt To Win

  November 4, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Liz Herbert, Matthew Guarini, Brian Hopkins

  In today’s business environment, change is constant. Technology, customer expectations, workforce issues, and economic factors are continually evolving. To thrive in this environment,...

• Blog Predictions 2021: Software Developers Face Mounting Pressure

  October 30, 2020 | Jeffrey Hammond

  Last year, (now retired) Forrester Research Director Chris Mines predicted that the world of software development was set for some big changes in 2020. We had no idea that a year later, almost...

• Report The Agile Enterprise Emphasizes Practice Over Process

  Vision: The Agile Software Leadership Playbook

  July 2, 2020 | Jeffrey Hammond, Margo Visitacion

  Organizations are scrambling to deliver outstanding digital customer experiences that fuel business growth. Agile delivery practices are now mainstream, but to drive true business differentiation,...

• Report Developer Adoption Of Front-End Frameworks: Angular Leads, But React And Vue Gain

  As Front-End Frameworks Mature, A Potential New Leader Emerges

  May 8, 2020 | Jeffrey Hammond

  It's practically a development trope: Don't like the front-end framework your developers use? Wait six months, and it will change. But developer adoption data over the past three years shows that...

• Report The Forrester New Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2020

  The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  February 27, 2020 | Jeffrey Hammond

  In Forrester's evaluation of the emerging market for function-as-a-service (FaaS), we identified the nine most significant providers in the category — Alibaba, Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, IBM,...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology On Digital Experiences

  How More Than 50 Emerging Technologies Will Impact Data And Experiences For Consumers

  February 24, 2020 | Julie Ask, Kjell Carlsson, PhD, Jeffrey Hammond

  Forrester interviewed more than 150 companies across industries and technology categories to understand how more than 50 technologies will evolve over the next five to 10 years and assess their...

• Report The State Of The Agile Enterprise

  Landscape: The Agile Software Leadership Playbook

  February 18, 2020 | Margo Visitacion, Jeffrey Hammond

  To respond to the challenges of digital transformation, Agile software leaders and application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals must address both business issues and the needs of their...

• Report Now Tech: Serverless, Q4 2019

  Forrester's Overview Of 14 Serverless Providers

  December 23, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond

  You can use serverless technologies to run feature experiments in hours instead of days, pay only for the actual compute consumed, and quickly refine and refactor microservices. But to realize...

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  Webinar Developer Engagement Best Practices

  December 12, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond

  One consequence of digital transformation is that companies are increasingly interested in creating digital platforms and services for developers to use and extend with new digital products and...

• Blog Getting Chatty With Bixby (Samsung’s Intelligent Agent)

  November 8, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond

  (With Julie Ask) Last week, Samsung hosted its annual Developer Conference in San Jose, California. Developers sampled the company’s latest offerings for mobile app and web development, the...

• Report Predictions 2020: Software Development

  November 4, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond, Randy Heffner, Rob Koplowitz

  AD&D pros: Read this report to learn about five market-shifting events that will punctuate the world of software development in 2020.

• Report Predictions 2020: DevOps

  Firms Will Embrace New Customer-Centric Approaches As DevOps Speeds Falter

  November 4, 2019 | Charles Betz, Diego Lo Giudice, Christopher Condo

  DevOps continues to capture hearts and minds. However, with release speeds slowing, it's experiencing an inflection point. To succeed, integrated DevOps teams must perceive this inflection point as...

• Report Serverless Development Best Practices

  Developers Better Serve The Business With A Serverless Approach — When They Adopt Three New Practices

  October 2, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond, John Rymer

  Serverless is a hot topic among application development and delivery (AD&D) pros building in the cloud. Why? Serverless lets developers focus on what the business cares about — their code — rather...

• Report Developer Engagement Best Practices

  How Vendors Drive Software Adoption By Engaging With Developers

  September 13, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond

  Enterprise software companies traditionally focus on selling new products to technical management and business leaders, but influential developers offer another channel for adoption. Engaging...

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  Webinar Make The Business Case For Your Core Tech Strategy

  August 29, 2019 | Lauren Nelson, Jeffrey Hammond, Margo Visitacion

  A successful business case needs to speak to all stakeholders and tell a compelling story backed up with credible data. Why are you investing in new technology, and how do you set up the top-level...

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  Webinar Digging Deeper Into Serverless

  June 13, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond, Dave Bartoletti, John Rymer

  As more development teams design, develop, and deliver customer experiences using a serverless approach, delivery best practices and challenges emerge. Join Forrester analysts Dave Bartoletti, John...

• Report Coding Boot Camps: A New Source of Talent?

  Turn To These Programs For Your Next Crop Of Developer Talent

  May 20, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond, Bill Seguin

  Software developers are hard to find, and companies need more and more of them every day. Unfortunately, some application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders hamstring themselves from the...

• Report Navigate The Coding Boot Camp Landscape To Find Your Next Developer

  Engage With The Right Boot Camps To Find The Developers You Need

  May 20, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond, Bill Seguin

  Companies need to look for new sources for developer talent. Coding boot camps are a promising source, but it can be hard for application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders to understand the...

• Blog Anthos Ups Google’s Enterprise Efforts

  April 23, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond

  (With Dave Bartoletti and John Rymer) The biggest announcement out of the Google Cloud Next conference in early April was the general availability of its Cloud Services Platform but with a new...

• Report Audio: The State Of Extended Reality (XR) In 2019

  Listen To Forrester's Overview Of The Opportunities, Challenges, And Future Of Augmented, Virtual, And Mixed Reality

  April 19, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond, Julie Ask

  Recent updates in hardware and development tools make extended reality (XR) ready for primetime in the enterprise. Important use cases are to extend expertise, assist with complex sales, and train...