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Optimize Software Engineering Value and Costs
Optimizing software value and costs defines the critical mission for every software engineering leader
AI tools and complex tokenomics disrupt software delivery. For the software engineering leader, the mission demands modernizing practices to deliver maximum value without inflating budgets. Yet, slashing innovation funding guarantees irrelevance and unchecked AI adoption generates compounding technical debt.
Download this guide to master this mission-critical priority. Discover how Gartner equips leaders like you to measure ROI, pilot advanced development technologies and scale modern capabilities through platform engineering.
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What does the software engineering organization of the future look like?
Leaders must innovate new ways of working, enhance platform engineering and modernize technologies and architectures to maximize the ROI from engineering initiatives. This will require effective measurement of the costs and value of software engineering initiatives to guide prioritization and improvement.
Gartner has identified the major actions and decisions on your journey to success on this mission-critical priority. Our tools and insights support you throughout these steps, which will typically span many quarters or even years. (Prioritize and sequence these steps based on your organization’s specific needs.)
The steps to successfully reenvision your organization, teams, talent and workflows are:
Establish measures of software value
Align software engineering metrics with enterprise business objectives to track and communicate ROI.
Pilot modern development use cases
Test modern development practices and technologies to optimize software delivery costs and returns.
Implement technical debt programs
Identify and prioritize the remediation of compounding technical debt generated by AI implementations.
Scale with platform engineering
Utilize platform engineering to accelerate software delivery and enable modern technical capabilities.
Decision tools
Get benchmarks, assessments and guides to drive stronger performance.
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8 – 10 Jun 2027
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