Christopher Condo
Principal Analyst
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Feature Management And Experimentation — An Evolving Market
With feature management, engineering teams can engage in the practice of progressive delivery, where features are deployed with flags turned off, tested in production, and then gradually turned on to a progressively larger audience of users until the new feature is completely released. This mechanism can be used for new features, but the most common use case is safely managing continuous updates.
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Accessibility Is Getting Its GDPR Moment
Software that is not written with the needs of people with visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive disabilities in mind blocks potential and current customers from using your products and services. Imagine what you would do to get 1.3 billion more customers.
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Should Your Organization Adopt An Internal Product Team Approach?
Adopting this approach can come with advantages, including more flexible planning, greater business alignment, and more flexibility and adaptability. Learn which factors will impact its effectiveness.
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A Developer At An I&O Vendor Conference
Get a detailed look at the capabilities of Dynatrace's new Observability for Developers direct from the Dynatrace Perform event.
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The Quest To Measure Developer Productivity Is Fueling The Market For Value Stream Management And Software Engineering Intelligence Tools
Using SEI tools, dev leaders can optimize their software development processes while improving the developer experience. The market growth in SEI tools directly corresponds to the explosive use of genAI TuringBots, commonly referred to as copilots for software development.
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Are You Making These DevSecOps Mistakes? The Four Phases You Need To Know Before Your Code Becomes Your Vulnerability
Learn the four key phases of DevSecOps as well as some key best practices to jump-start your transformation in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.
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Predictions 2025: GenAI Reality Bites Back For Software Developers
AI assistants are only the beginning of the generative AI software development revolution. Find out what’s in store for software developers in our 2025 predictions for software development.
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GitLab Customers Hope To Stay Out Of The Doghouse If Acquired By Datadog
GitLab is a leading platform for version control, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and collaboration. With its robust features and security focus, GitLab has gained a loyal user base and has become a go-to solution for enterprise developers worldwide. A recent rumor, however, suggests that Datadog, a popular monitoring and analytics platform, is eyeing a […]
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Key Insights From The Feature Management And Experimentation Solutions Landscape, Q1 2024
Over the course of late 2023 and early 2024, we conducted a Forrester Landscape report on the available feature management and experimentation solutions in the marketplace. Get three key takeaways from our comparison of vendors across geography, industry, use case, and size to learn what benefits you can expect from FM&E.
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At GitHub Universe, Copilot Takes Center Stage, But Questions About The Platform Persist
The big attraction at the GitHub Universe event was GitHub Copilot, the AI assistant based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 technology. Find out more in this review of the event.
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Mature DevOps Organizations Embrace The Process
So how does one go from adoption to excellence? Big picture: Reject false constraints. Learning and adopting high-end practices and technology can be done within any industry engaged in software development ... which is every industry.
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Should You Care About Developer Productivity?
Measuring individual developer productivity has its drawbacks. Get four key strategies to help your development teams succeed in this post.
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Restricted Source Licensing Is Here
Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life. Major software companies employ teams of full-time workers to write and contribute code to open source projects. Even end user companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Capital One, etc., are contributing back […]
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ISDP: Unified DevOps Platforms Coordinate Development And Operations
It’s been happening for a while. There’s been a trend in the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and release automation (RA) world: DevOps tools merging into a unified platform. CI companies such as JFrog and CloudBees have acquired CDRA companies like Shippable and Electric Cloud. CD companies such as Harness are buying CI tools […]
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The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023: Say Goodbye To The DevOps Tax
CI + CDRA = ISDP Last year, we announced the emergence of the integrated software delivery platform (ISDP) market. At the time, we argued that DevOps and DevOps-adjacent practices had reshaped the development and delivery landscape such that the boundaries between our continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery release automation (CDRA) coverage felt arbitrary and […]
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Value Stream Management: What, Why, And How To Pick A Platform
Value Stream Management Works Our research is clear: Value stream management (VSM) delivers real results. We’ve spent the last year learning how organizations have applied VSM to their business, mapping the solution landscape, assessing the impact of mergers and acquisitions, and evaluating the vendors that define the market. We Want To Help You Get Started […]
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DevOps Theme Team: 2022 In Review And Looking Ahead To 2023
Happy holidays from the DevOps theme team! Our merry band of Forrester analysts covering enterprise architecture, infrastructure, application development, application security, and technology strategy meets periodically to share research, debate trends, and dive into breaking news. What are a few of the trends and themes that have caught our attention this year? Let’s dive in […]
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VSM Enables All Teams To Become Elite
Value stream management (VSM) is not value stream mapping and it’s not a DevOps tool, but it plays a crucial role in helping teams optimize software delivery and track value across their software delivery lifecycle, even when a team is not operating in a “DevOps” mode. VSM tools “connect” into your software delivery process, ingest […]
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OutSystems Buys Ionic: What It Means
On November 7, OutSystems announced that it had acquired Ionic. A few years ago, that would have shaken the mobile development industry, and even today, it will cause vibrations in parts of it. We see three major dynamics in application development that are shaping the future of software development and this market: The scarcity of […]
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The State Of VSM: Five Things We Like
In 2020, Forrester’s Now Tech: Value Stream Management Tools, Q2 2020, report featured 12 vendors with a stand-alone or integrated VSM solution. Two years later, this market has nearly doubled: The Value Stream Management Landscape, Q3 2022, covers 22 fully featured VSM vendors. More vendors means more competition and more innovation, which is good for […]
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