Citizen development will eat the world and possibly your organisation

No-code and low-code tools are the next battle frontier of the tech giants, as proven by Amazon’s recent entry. All the big boys have started to come out to play. For the last two months, I have been working with Sunil Prashara, the CEO of PMI. He is writing a book about citizen development. I am learning a lot and had the opportunity to talk to some brilliant people. My biggest take is that citizen development is the most efficient and effective way to achieve true transformation.

Statistics

The statistics are compelling.

• By 2023, the number of active citizen developers at large enterprises will be at least four times the number of professional developers.
• Low-code software development, Forrester found, helps developers make cloud-native applications more than 10-times faster (with 70% fewer resources)
• Almost 50% of app development businesses have started using both low-code and no-code solutions for their business.
• There are already predictions that by 2030, no-code and low-code will have a combined market share of nearly 60%.
• Forrester expects the no-code/low-code market to reach $21.2 billion by 2022.
• According to research firm MarketsandMarkets…