Gartner for Software Engineering Leaders provides insight, guidance and tools to help lead teams that build applications to drive greater business impact, while continuously improving engineering competencies and practices to be more competitive.
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How Gartner Works With Software Engineering Leaders
How we support your priorities
Improve your team’s effectiveness
Ensure developer teams are leveraging the right technology and practices to maximize their impact.
Utilize AI in software development
Build compelling digital products using AI, safely and effectively.
Incorporate security into development
Understand how to build security into the software engineering process from the beginning.
Ensure you have the right talent
Create an engineering culture that drives recruitment and retention while providing a positive developer experience.
Guidance on mission-critical areas
The Gartner Priorities Navigator™ represents mission-critical areas where Gartner provides supportive expert advice and tools to software engineering leaders and their teams.
For software engineering leaders
Gartner provides insights, tools and guidance to support progressing their initiatives from building a world-class software engineering organization, developing and delivering digital products that drive business results to adopting modern architectures and technologies.
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
* For select premium products only
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
Explore resources across each tab below.
- Decisioning Tools
- Expert Guidance
- Premier Conferences
- Peer Community
- Consulting
Turn strategy into execution with tools that help you reduce investment risk and deliver on your team’s performance. Use data and workflow tools, benchmark against industry leaders, ease the technology development process and more.
Explore some of our client tools below:
Access our team of 2,500+ research and advisory 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+
Research and advisory 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.