Citizen development enables non- or semi-technical workers to become a type of software developer that creates business tools or applications.
More and more companies are engaging citizen development in their organizations. If you have someone in your company interested in exploring the world of citizen development, we have three options to help them get started:
Application development outside the walls of IT is rapidly accelerating
Are you ready? One-third of the companies that do not have formalized policies on citizen development could encounter substantial data, process-integrity and security vulnerabilities.
Today, “citizen developers” are creating enterprise-wide and even public applications, thanks to new simplified tools and forces such as cloud computing.Gartner says citizen developers will build at least 25 percent of new business applications by 2014.
