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Citizen Developer
A Citizen Developer refers to a worker in a company whose job title or description doesn’t include ‘developer,’ but who nonetheless creates or publishes applications for customers or fellow employees to fill an unmet functional need. The citizen developer may be a self-taught do-it-yourself programmer, or they may use any number of self-service toolkits and platforms (such as low-code or no-code, digital process management apps and more) to assist them in building software.
Citizen development tools may be sanctioned by the company as a way to decrease costs and get more involvement in app dev, or they may sometimes unsanctioned by IT and considered “shadow IT” or rogue development.
Related terms: DIY developer, self-service, software toolkit, DPA, low-code, no-code, application design, API toolkit, Shadow IT
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Citizen Developer
A Citizen Developer refers to a worker in a company whose job title or description doesn’t include ‘developer,’ but who nonetheless creates or publishes applications for customers or fellow employees to fill an unmet functional need. The citizen developer may be a self-taught do-it-yourself programmer, or they may use any number of self-service toolkits and platforms (such as low-code or no-code, digital process management apps and more) to assist them in building software.
Citizen development tools may be sanctioned by the company as a way to decrease costs and get more involvement in app dev, or they may sometimes unsanctioned by IT and considered “shadow IT” or rogue development.
Related terms: DIY developer, self-service, software toolkit, DPA, low-code, no-code, application design, API toolkit, Shadow IT
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