Gartner Expert
Mike West
Sr Director Analyst
Mike West covers the organizational impact and governance of enterprise agile, and agile transformation. Previously, Mr. West was VP and Research Director at Gartner from 1991-1999. Prior to joining Gartner, he worked as a developer and manager in financial services (John Hancock and Fidelity Investments) and high-tech (Apple). He has extensive experience as a developer, as a manager, and as an analyst in application development methods. And he has over a dozen years working as an analyst at Gartner.
Previous experience
Mr. West has been an analyst since 1991, covering application development, information risk and cloud.
Professional background
Saugatuck Technology
VP, Distinguished Analyst and Fellow
Corporate Executive Board
Practice Manager, Information Risk Executive Council
Gartner
VP, Application Development and Management Strategies, Gartner Fellow
Areas of coverage
Application Leaders
Application and Product Portfolio Governance
Education
M.B.A., Boston College Graduate School of Management
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Williams College
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Transforming an organization to agile and DevOps
2Shifting from projects to products
3Organizational change in agile transformation
4Scaling agile across the enterprise
5Understanding differences among enterprise agile frameworks