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Thomas E. Murphy
Sr Director Analyst
Thomas Murphy advises software engineering leaders on how to effectively utilize collaborative practices to drive customer value. He specializes in DevOps, software quality, and application development, and his research covers culture and practices for high performing teams, continuous quality and autonomous test automation. Mr. Murphy provides guidance to CIOs and senior technology leaders, as well as software and service providers who are refining their product strategies and positioning. He is the Vendor Lead Analyst for ServiceNow.
Previous experience
Mr. Murphy has more than 30 years of experience in IT, spending time as a developer, product manager, technical editor and industry analyst. Prior to rejoining Gartner, he worked at Microsoft in the Visual Studio TFS group. Previously, he was an analyst with Meta Group and Gartner. He served on the board of directors for the OMG and led product strategies at ObjectShare. Early in his career, he was a technical editor at Software Development and AI Expert magazines; he also built custom tools for scientific research and embedded systems. His development experience spans embedded systems, Smalltalk, Java, and C/C++ utilizing agile practices.
Professional background
Microsoft
Group Program Manager
Gartner
Vice President
ObjectShare
Director of Marketing
Areas of coverage
Applications and Software Engineering Leaders
Software Engineering Technologies
Agile and DevOps (retired)
Education
Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Ohio State University and University of Utah
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Selection of tools and techniques for the testing of software - the impact of ML/AI
2Adoption of DevOps practices including CI/CD, TDD, Communities of Practice and innersourcing
3Choice of DevOps toolchain components and building value stream platforms
4ServiceNow - general directions, partnering, and platform
5Evolving testing practices shift left/right, chaos engineering, continuous quality