With a visual interface that makes the software creation environment easier and more intuitive, no-code platforms have made it possible for people without a background in technology to develop digital solutions tailored to their businesses.
Although the term has been known since the arrival of low-code tools, between the late 90s and early 2000s, it is with the advent of no-code that citizen developers begin to become popular.
Defined by Gartner as “an employee who creates applications for his or her own use or for others”, the term is not considered a title or job title. But a way to identify a common user (no IT knowledge) of programming experts’ no-code platforms. Therefore, it is common to refer to them as a “community of citizen developers”.
The non-mandatory of technical knowledge in programming codes does not compromise the development of solutions in no-code tools, since it is enough to know the features of the platform to put an idea into practice. This is one of the reasons corporations have invested in no-code authoring tools and citizen developer communities, which are made up of professionals from non-technology departments.
High Demand in IT
Due to the high demand in the technology area and the lack of professionals, citizen developers end up contributing to the reduction of the simplest internal requests for IT teams, allowing them to dedicate themselves more to innovation projects and high complexity.
Through no-code creation tools, citizen developers can, in addition to modeling their solutions, perform simulations and tests, without necessarily needing a specialist to stop or delay a project of greater relevance to the business. However, the entire process is guided and monitored by the Technology sector.
The citizen developer cannot use any type of tool or technology, not even deploy digital solutions, without the consent of the IT area. Therefore, the community of citizen developers is seen as a support to the technology area, which helps in the optimization of internal work and innovation.
Benefits
Among the benefits pointed out by corporations that make use of no-code platforms and rely on the collaboration of internal communities of citizen developers is the significant reduction in the time spent between the development and testing of applications.
Other benefits pointed out by corporations are: increase in the number of professionals contributing to the digital transformation of the business; process optimization; greater dedication of internal IT teams to more complex and other projects.
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