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• Report How To Turn Process From A Hindrance Into A Help

  Beginner Level: Process Practices For IT Transformation

  January 22, 2021 | Margo Visitacion, Christopher Condo

  Technology leaders must establish customer-focused processes that maximize value delivered. Standing in their way are outdated organizational models, disconnected technology platforms, and legacy...

• 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...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q3 2020

  The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  July 15, 2020 | Christopher Condo

  In our 30-criterion evaluation of value stream management (VSM) providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Atlassian, Blueprint, CloudBees, ConnectALL, Digital.ai, GitLab, IBM,...

• Report The Coronavirus Crisis Increases The Demands On Software And Developers

  May 20, 2020 | John Rymer, Christopher Condo, Rob Koplowitz

  Read this report to learn about the new demands that the coronavirus crisis places on application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals and their teams — and how to respond.

• Report Now Tech: Value Stream Management Tools, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 19 Value Stream Management Tool Providers

  April 29, 2020 | Christopher Condo

  Enterprise software organizations use value stream management (VSM) tools to identify waste in delivery processes, create integrated toolchains, and tie value delivered directly back to business...

• Report The Benefits Of An Open Source Strategy

  Drive Ecosystem And Client Adoption, Extension, And Collaboration For Your Platform Services

  April 3, 2020 | James Staten, Christopher Condo

  Many enterprises struggle to acquire broad adoption of their technology systems, often because their customers see those systems as being proprietary and closed. When organizations leverage open...

• Report To Maximize OSS Value, Create An OSS Strategy

  Enterprise Leaders Need A Clear Open Source Software (OSS) Strategy To Maximize OSS Business Value

  March 27, 2020 | Christopher Condo, James Staten

  Enterprises that go it alone to devise every piece of software innovation will find themselves quickly falling behind their counterparts that leverage the open source software (OSS) community....

• Report Elevate Agile-Plus-DevOps With Value Stream Management

  VSM Takes Over Where Application Lifecycle Management Leaves Off

  February 19, 2020 | Christopher Condo, Diego Lo Giudice

  Practicing value stream management (VSM) allows companies to turn their Agile-plus-DevOps environments into real digital business drivers. With VSM, organizations implementing Agile-plus-DevOps...

• Report Master The SDLC For Modern Application Delivery

  Landscape: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook

  December 5, 2019 | Christopher Condo, Diego Lo Giudice

  The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is a complex set of processes, people, and technologies. To truly master modern application delivery (MAD), application development and delivery (AD&D)...

• 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 The Forrester Wave™: Cloud-Native Continuous Integration Tools, Q3 2019

  The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  September 19, 2019 | Christopher Condo

  In our 27-criterion evaluation of cloud-native continuous integration (CI) tool providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Atlassian, Buildkite, CircleCI,...

• Report Now Tech: Continuous Integration Tools, Q3 2019

  Forrester's Overview Of 16 Continuous Integration Tools Providers

  September 16, 2019 | Christopher Condo

  Continuous integration (CI) tools are a lifeblood necessity for application development and delivery teams (AD&D) by enabling them to work on a common code base safely and at speed. But to realize...

• Report Adopt Product Management To Connect Design And Development

  Remedy The Design-Development Disconnect With A Triad Model

  September 6, 2019 | Christopher Condo, Jennifer Wise, Bill Seguin

  Ever since Steve Jobs took the stage and wowed the world with the iPhone, the software market has recognized the importance of experience design (XD). But many application development and delivery...

• Report Cloud CI Tools Mature To Meet Enterprise Challenges

  Cloud-Based Continuous Integration Tools Enable Enterprise AD&D Teams To Go Faster, Be More Agile, And Own The Software Life Cycle

  June 26, 2019 | Christopher Condo

  Cloud continuous integration (CI) tools have evolved to take on enterprise challenges by improving security and compliance capabilities, making them an attractive alternative or complement to...

• Report Master The Gamut Of Software Development Automation

  Apply Forrester's Framework To Create A Holistic Automation Strategy

  June 24, 2019 | Diego Lo Giudice, Chris Gardner, Christopher Condo

  The impact of automation on efforts to win, serve, and retain customers is unquestionable. However, it can be difficult for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals to determine...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Midsize Agile Software Development Service Providers, Q2 2019

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  May 29, 2019 | Duncan Jones, Christopher Condo

  In our 22-criterion evaluation of midsize Agile development service providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — 3Pillar Global, Brillio, Cybage, EPAM Systems, Exadel, Grid Dynamics, HCL...

• Report Create Sustainable Process Innovation

  Advanced Level: Process Practices For IT Transformation

  March 6, 2019 | Margo Visitacion, Christopher Condo

  Technology leaders must sustainably innovate customer-focused processes to beat the competition. Customer-focused, automated design and development processes enable teams to deliver high-impact...

• Report Put Customers At The Center Of Tech Processes

  Intermediate Level: Process Practices For IT Transformation

  March 5, 2019 | Christopher Condo, Margo Visitacion

  Technology leaders at the intermediate level must advance IT with customer-focused processes that maximize value delivered. Once established practices are in place, it's time to focus on putting...

• Report Early Adopters Of VSM Start To See The Light

  How Early Adopters Of Value Stream Management Align App Dev With Business Outcomes

  February 13, 2019 | Christopher Condo, Bill Seguin

  Value stream management (VSM) tools are starting to emerge to fill the gaps that DevOps alone can't, such as the capture and visualization of KPIs and the ability to connect business needs to value...

• Report Put Product Management To Work In Software Development

  Organize Development By Product And Reap The Benefits

  February 4, 2019 | Christopher Condo, Bill Seguin

  To deliver software faster, top-performing application development and delivery (AD&D) organizations have adopted product-centric teams that obliterate organizational silos and force teams to...