Melinda-Carol Ballou

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Melinda-Carol Ballou

Research Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

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SmartBear Seeks to Grow BDD Capabilities with Cucumber Acquisition

Jun 2019 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS45332019

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

On June 25th SmartBear announced the acquisition of Cucumber Ltd., a widely adopted and engaged Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) community and provider of an open source software (OSS) test automation framework known as Cucumber. The move ...
CloudBees Acquires Electric Cloud to Add Release Automation

Apr 2019 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS45023019

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

CloudBees, a provider of continuous delivery software services known predominantly for its Jenkins-based CI/CD solutions announced the acquisition of Electric Cloud, a well-known continuous delivery and application release automation (ARA) ...
Atlassian Acquires AgileCraft for a Strategic Perspective

Mar 2019 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS44942119

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

On March 18, 2019, Atlassian Corp. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AgileCraft, a provider of business-oriented, higher-end agile planning software. This acquisition seeks to address a compelling need for its ...

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Worldwide Project and Portfolio Management Software Market Shares, 2018: Evolving and Scaling Agile Execution for Projects and Programs

Jul 2019 | Market Share | Doc # US43883519

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

This IDC study provides 2018 market share for the worldwide project and portfolio management (PPM) market, which grew 7.0% to $4.33 billion in 2018 with current IDC numbers (compared with growth of 4.1% to $4.05 billion in 2017). We expect ...
Agile Development Drives Speed for Coding, Deployment, and Fixes to Support Business Innovation and Execution

Jun 2019 | IDC Survey Spotlight | Doc # US45332419

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

This IDC Survey Spotlight shows agile developer improvements in three key areas: the speed at which code is created, the pace at which developers deploy software, and the mean time to resolution (MTTR) to create code fixes. Given the vital ...
Worldwide Project and Portfolio Management Forecast, 2019–2023

Jun 2019 | Market Forecast | Doc # US44637419

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

This IDC study provides a 2019–2023 forecast for the worldwide project and portfolio management market, which grew 7% to $4.33 billion in 2018 with current IDC numbers (compared with growth of 4.1% to $4.05 billion in 2017). We expect the m...

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Analyst Location

United States

Coverage

Software, Services

Regions

Worldwide, North America

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IT Executive Programs Analyst Team, Open Source