What are the benefits and possible risks of citizen development?

Citizen Development?

This means that non-technical users can create applications and take part in digitisation.

The key advantage of this type of development is speed..

With traditional development, you first have to define the detailed requirements. Then it would be helpful to hand it over to a development team to check the details. Unfortunately, this costs time and money.

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Citizen developers play an essential role in digital transformation.

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Traditional software development vs. citizen development

With traditional development, you first need to define the detailed requirements. Then it would help if you handed it over to a development team to check the details. Unfortunately, this costs time and money.

In a citizen development environment, business users develop their applications. There is no loss of information because there is no need for extensive knowledge transfer.

Standardisation of software applications and processes is necessary to harmonise the development activities of citizen developers.

However, this also opens up new capacities, as the support and coaching of citizen developers creates the opportunity to develop new specialists with little effort.

The risks of this approach could be a shadow. It may need to meet the security requirements of the central IT structure.

So before you start, carefully consider how best to integrate a #low-code platform into your central IT infrastructure.