Low-Code / No-code / Citizen Development

Simplified tools and techniques for non-developers to build real, enterprise ready applications is exploding. Adding these skills to your business SME knowledge can position you for the next-gen jobs and higher salaries.

Some definitions to get you started:

  • An Enterprise Low-code application platform (LCAP) provides rapid application development and deployment using low-code and no-code techniques such as declarative, model-driven application design and development together with the simplified one-button deployment of applications.

  • A Low-Code/No-Code development platform provides a development environment used to create application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional hand-coded computer programming.

  • Citizen development is the enterprise practice of business professionals, not trained in a technology discipline, to build, deploy and continuously improve applications critical to their business in a secure, controlled and disciplined manner that is sanctioned and governed by IT.

Here are some tools and resources to check out in this growing area: