Disrupting Business: the rise of citizen developers

CITIZENDEVELOPERS

The rise of

@CagedEtherDaryl Pereira

Workplace

IT Folks

Challenges

Faster time to market

BYOD

Data explosion

New cloud services

“We want more, and we want it now!”

Citizen Developer

“A citizen developer is a user who creates new business applications for consumption by others using development and runtime environments sanctioned by corporate IT” Gartner

“80% of business innovators use citizen developers”IBM Business Tech

Trends

What do Citizen Developers do?

Leverage cloud platforms

Tap into existing services

Share code (sometimes)

Why do developers do it? “Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”Linus TorvaldsLinux Foundation

Example apps created for the City of Honolulu

Vaibhav Verma at Rutgers developed app to help students get into popular classes

Developers like Xiu Lei Zhu go to town on Business Tech Trends data

Hackathons, co-working spaces, social coding networks help link citizen developers

“More than 60 developers in a project can impact efficiency”

Yuya YoshikawaNara Institute of Science & TechnologyJapan

Citizen DevelopersMore IT becoming exposed as a service

Security represents a major hurdle

New toolsets emerging for non-coders

Create environments for social coding