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	Jeffrey S. Hammond Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Agile Methodologies, Application Development, Application Development Processes & Tools, Application Infrastructure Technologies, Application Life-Cycle Management, Architecture & Technology Strategy, Customer Experience, Enterprise Mobility, Integrated Development Environments, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Application Platforms, Open Source Development Tools, Open Source Infrastructure, Open Source Strategy, Programming Languages, Release Management, Rich Internet Applications, Social Computing & Web 2.0, Software Change & Configuration Management, Software Modeling, Web 2.0 Development

Research Focus

Jeffrey serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on open source software, next-generation mobile, open web and client architectures, and improving software development productivity.

Previous Work Experience

Jeffrey is starting his fifth year at Forrester and in 2009 was named the top industry analyst covering development by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations. Jeffrey joined Forrester from IBM's Rational unit, where he created award-winning application development tools, including Rational Rose/J Edition, Rose/CORBA, and Rose/PowerBuilder. Jeffrey's had a wide variety of software industry roles, including development, product management, marketing, business development, and strategy.

Prior to joining Rational Software, Jeffrey was part of Accenture's Advanced Systems Group, where he led application development projects at Fortune 500 clients.

Education

Jeffrey holds a B.S. in economics (finance) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Did You Know?

Jeffrey is an avid home brewer.