Mike West works on the Software Engineering Strategies team and covers agile transformation, shifting from projects to products, scaling agile, enterprise agile frameworks, organizational strategies and software engineering culture.
Prior to joining Gartner, he worked as a developer and manager in financial services IT at John Hancock and Fidelity Investments and high-tech at Apple. He has extensive experience as a developer, as a manager, and as an analyst in application development methods. And he has logged over 15 years working as an analyst at Gartner.
Mr. West has been an analyst since 1991, covering application development, information risk and cloud.
Saugatuck Technology
VP, Distinguished Analyst and Fellow
Corporate Executive Board
Practice Manager, Information Risk Executive Council
Gartner
VP, Application Development and Management Strategies, Gartner Emeritus
Applications and Software Engineering Leaders
M.B.A., Boston College Graduate School of Management
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Williams College
1Agile transformation
2Shifting from projects to products
3Scaling agile
4Enterprise agile frameworks
5Organization and culture