Posts tagged with the "forrester" tag

The Financial Implications of Technical Debt

The Financial Implications of Technical Debt

February 22, 2011 | 2 Comments Discussions in the industry about technical debt have been focused on the IT costs involved in remediation and the potential risk to the company if applications deployed with poor structural integrity fail to perform optimally, or fail completely. But some impressive new ways of looking at the cost of technical debt …Read More
Forrester’s Dave West On Agile and Technical Debt

Forrester’s Dave West On Agile and Technical Debt

January 26, 2011 | Be the first to comment! We have more than 900 folks already signed up for this webinar, but there's still time to sign up. Date: Thursday, January 27th Time: 11AM EDT (5PM CET, 4PM GMT, 8AM PDT) Sign up for the webinar here: http://www.castsoftware.com/Worldwide/events/012711.aspx Hear Dave West, principal analyst at Forrester Research discuss how organizations are …Read More
Quantifying Technical Debt: Beware of Your Assumptions

Quantifying Technical Debt: Beware of Your Assumptions

October 14, 2010 | Be the first to comment! Our colleagues at Gartner have made a little bit of a stir in the media with their findings on IT debt. Almost every industry pub, and some bloggers, have opined by this point. Here is a stack containing some of the recent articles and posts on the topic: Computerworld, by Mitch …Read More
Forrester’s Bill Martorelli On Multisourcing

Forrester’s Bill Martorelli On Multisourcing

August 3, 2010 | 1 Comment Forrester analyst Bill Martorelli spoke last week on the topic of Multisourcing in 2010: Best Practices for Managing Risk and Cost. [caption id="attachment_763" align="alignright" width="78" caption="Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst, Forrester"][/caption] You can hear the presentation again by clicking here. Bill presented the 10 commandments of multisourcing covering governance, SLAs, and best practices. Here are …Read More
CAST Must See-TV Season 2: How to Multisource Applications

CAST Must See-TV Season 2: How to Multisource Applications

July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments Seldom do the worlds of mainstream network television programming and IT collide. But when they do … it’s comedy. Or at least NBC thinks so. The network is promoting a sitcom called ‘Outsourced’ about an American thirty-something who goes to India to manage a call-center.  Inevitably, comedic culture clashes ensue. …Read More