In my previous Quickbase guest post on citizen automation, we discussed the digital transformation imperative, and how important it is to get ‘all hands on deck’ with citizen developers to make this overarching initiative happen.
If you were to assign that digital transformation initiative to a solitary project manager, they might describe their task sardonically: “We just need to align all of the people, processes and technology within our company around customer needs. No big deal.”
It sounds like a digital transformation would certainly involve a lot of complexity, and therefore at least some coding work. If that would mean low-code tools are the best fit, why are we talking about no-code shortcuts now?
No-code, the sibling of low-code
According to my Intellyx colleague Jason Bloomberg, the contrast between low-code and no-code solutions used to be much clearer:
“Low-code targeted professional developers, simplifying their work by taking ‘plumbing’ tasks off their plate, while also facilitating collaboration with business stakeholders.
No-code, in contrast, was for business users, aka ‘citizen developers,’ who could build rudimentary applications via nothing but the wizards and drag-and-drop capabilities of the tools, with no coding more complicated than Excel formulas.”
More functionality has evolved into no-code and low-code products, so that today the two spaces overlap in many cases.
Low-code solutions gained some no-code drag-and-drop features, and no-code solutions opened some aspects of their platforms for developer adaptation, especially when integration and custom data handling is required. For the sake of this article, let’s go forward with the idea that no-code development is the part of the practice that does not require any coding.
Shortcut 1: Structural partnership between IT and business.
The first shortcut to no-code productivity isn’t a shortcut at all – it’s an organizational unification both IT and citizen development should agree upon.
Business leaders may turn to low-code because they are frustrated with the time and budget required to get IT to deliver the functionality they need. Conversely, IT leadership is stymied by instances of ‘Rogue IT’ where business teams spend resources on technology that was never specified by IT…
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Read the whole story on the Quickbase blog here: https://www.quickbase.com/blog/no-code-shortcuts
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