Melinda-Carol Ballou

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Melinda-Carol Ballou

Research Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

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GitHub Expands Developer Community Collaboration and Security Capabilities at Time of Urgent Demand

Jun 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46622420

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies, Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Arnal DayaratnaResearch Director, Software Development

At GitHub's Satellite virtual conference last month, the company broadened portfolio capabilities for the platform across key areas including coding and development with GitHub Codespaces, collaboration across communities with GitHub Discus...
ChefConf 2020 — Expanding Solutions Beyond Traditional Configuration Management

Jun 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46556120

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

Chef software held its annual ChefConf user and technology conference virtually on June 2 and 3, 2020. Given the COVID-19 restrictions affecting travel and social distancing, Chef had to quickly pivot and convert from the planned live, in-p...
Micro Focus Virtual Universe 2020 – Sensible Digital Transformation

Jun 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46540820

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

Micro Focus recently held the company's first-ever virtual North American customer conference (Micro Focus Universe), which ran from May 19 to 21. Given the COVID-19 restrictions affecting travel and social distancing, Micro Focus had to qu...

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Worldwide Project and Portfolio Management Forecast, 2020–2024: Work Management and Enterprise Agile Coordination Drives Longer-Term Growth

Sep 2020 | Market Forecast | Doc # US46737020

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast for the worldwide project and portfolio management market, which grew 4.2% to $3.88 billion in 2019 with current IDC numbers (compared with growth of 6.9% to $3.73 billion in 2018). We initially ...
Agile Systems of Record Strategies for DevOps: Enabling Adaptability in an Age of COVID-19 by Leveraging Heritage Applications

Sep 2020 | IDC Perspective | Doc # US46731820

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC Perspective discusses current views about mainframe inclusion as part of DevOps and the consequences of a lack of visibility and coordination between legacy systems and "modern" development including systems of engagement. There is...
Worldwide Software Configuration, Change, and Process Management Forecast, 2020–2024: Agile Execution and Continuous Deployment Underpin Growth from COVID-19 Onward — 2Q20

Jul 2020 | Market Forecast | Doc # US45186320

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC study provides the 2019–2024 forecast for the worldwide software configuration, change, and process management (SCCPM) market. Revenue growth for leading vendors resulting from G2000 and SMB 2018 investment led to revenue growth of...

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Melinda-Carol Ballou

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GitHub Expands Developer Community Collaboration and Security Capabilities at Time of Urgent Demand

ChefConf 2020 — Expanding Solutions Beyond Traditional Configuration Management

Micro Focus Virtual Universe 2020 – Sensible Digital Transformation

Worldwide Project and Portfolio Management Forecast, 2020–2024: Work Management and Enterprise Agile Coordination Drives Longer-Term Growth

Agile Systems of Record Strategies for DevOps: Enabling Adaptability in an Age of COVID-19 by Leveraging Heritage Applications

Worldwide Software Configuration, Change, and Process Management Forecast, 2020–2024: Agile Execution and Continuous Deployment Underpin Growth from COVID-19 Onward — 2Q20

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