How Gartner Works With Software Engineering Leaders

Tackle your most critical priorities with trusted insights, tailored guidance, and execution tools backed by thousands of annual senior software leader conversations, 100+ software experts and dozens of quantitative studies. 

Guided by a former Software Leader, our flexible partnership evolves with your changing needs from annual planning, workforce initiatives, transformation to disruptions.

We help you move faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver measurable impact.

How we support your priorities

Expert guidance to help tackle your most critical priorities

Gartner for Software Engineering Leaders helps you prioritize time and resources on what matters most. Our insights, guidance, and tools focus on Mission-Critical Priorities (MCPs)—the imperatives that drive results for your business and stakeholders.

We focus on the highest impact priorities for senior software leaders—from unlocking value with AI to optimizing costs and leading change— decisions that drive impact. With step-by-step guidance and clear Journey Steps, Gartner helps you move confidently from strategy to execution.

Actionable Insights for your everyday organizational needs

Gartner for Software Engineering Leaders also equips you to tackle Perennial Priorities by connecting enterprise strategy to the functional decisions that drive performance.

Backed by over  510,000 client discussions, 23,000 vendor conversations and 200,000 AI queries, Gartner gives you access to more C level strategies, tools, and best practices than any other source.

  • AskGartner AI for instant, contextual answers and summaries
  • Case studies showcasing peer-tested strategies and measurable outcomes
  • Magic Quadrants and Market Guides for smarter tech decisions
  • Enterprise leadership insights to enhance C-suite collaboration  

How Gartner delivers value for software engineering leaders and their teams

Gartner supports the mission-critical priorities and development needs of you and your team.

Heads of Software Engineering

  • Complete access to all Gartner for Software Engineering Leaders content and tools, including executive leadership and emerging tech trends insights
  • Ability to initiate inquiries

  • Executive Partner support

  • VIP access to a Gartner conference

  • Gartner Peer Community™ and exclusive Software Engineering Leader Peer Community access

Software Engineering Managers

  • Gartner for Software Engineering Leaders content and tools

  • Ability to initiate inquiries​

  • Gartner Peer Community™ access​

  • Access to a Gartner conference

Software and Applications Architects*

  • Focused insights to support tactical engineering and development initiatives​

  • Ability to initiate tech-focused inquires​

  • Access to a Gartner conference

* Available as an additional product and purchase, Gartner for Technical Professionals​

What’s included

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Access our team of 2,500+ business and technology insights experts who guide leaders like you to achieve their mission-critical priorities.

Top Gartner experts will provide you with insightful and targeted research along with regular inquiries. In an ever-changing operating environment, you’ll have the ability to connect with a Gartner expert whenever priorities shift or as new issues arise.

Join other engineering leaders and their teams to learn about the latest trends, validate strategies and share best practices. As a Gartner for Software Engineering Leader, you will automatically have VIP access at conferences.

Obtain tangible next steps for priority initiatives, such as establishing an agile engineering program, meeting financial expectations, hiring and retaining the right talent, and preventing attacks on your software development.

*Available in NA and Europe only

Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit

9 – 10 September 2024 | London, U.K.

Connect how you want and when you want to learn from your peers who have faced the very same challenges you’re facing and will help you get fast, actionable answers. As a Gartner client, you will also gain exclusive access to features such as Peer Finder, which enables you to connect with similar leaders based on your specific needs. Join more than 100,000 leaders to build your network and gain insights from real-time discussions, member-generated polls and peer-led insights.

Gartner offers optional consulting services to help software engineering leaders deliver faster business impact.

Gartner Consulting supports engineering and developer executives leading technology-driven strategic initiatives.

With recommendations anchored in Gartner research and customized for each client, Gartner Consulting can integrate with and become an extension of your team. See how Gartner Consulting has supported client business outcomes.

Gartner by the numbers

2,500+
Business and technology insights experts
460,000+
Annual client interactions
15,000+
Client enterprises

What are the benefits?

 Improve your leadership effectiveness

Receive personalized advice on how to better use your strengths. Discover actionable steps you can take to be a better leader.

Capitalize on emerging technologies

 Identify and adopt new technologies to drive business growth and stay ahead of the competition.

Assess the performance of your function

Benchmark against peers and identify performance areas of strength and those to further develop with the Software Engineering Score​.

 Connect and network with peers

Solve your urgent challenges when you connect with a global community of business and technology peers.​

Save time finding the right insights

Quickly gain an objective perspective on your most pressing questions in the easy-to-navigate insights platform.

Optimize your spend and reduce risk

Identify cost management opportunities with comprehensive reviews of your IT contracts by Gartner experts with a deep understanding of providers, terms and pricing.

How Gartner clients have achieved success

Ford Pro at Ford Motor Company

Industry: Manufacturing
John Musser
Senior Director of Engineering for Ford Pro

 

Hear a sneak peek of Gartner's Sr. Director Analyst Paul Dumas interview with John Musser, Senior Director of Engineering for Ford Pro at Ford Motor Company, on how they optimized their API strategy. With Ford's current focus on building cloud, data and API platform services for their commercial vehicle customers dive into how they are measuring success.

 

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.