Low Code Development: Professionals, Task-forces, and the Wild West

Marcus B. Engelsen, Jacob Nørbjerg, Jeffry Babb

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Abstract

Low Code Development (LCD) platforms from IBM, Microsoft and other vendors have reinvigorated end-user development. Business professionals without extensive skills or background in systems and software development are empowered to create new IT and software artefacts through the extended capabilities of these platforms. The business professionals developing IT solutions with the help of the LCD platforms are usually referred to as ‘citizen developers’, but in practice, from an IT governance standpoint, these citizen developers are also referred to as “cowboys” as they leverage the LCD platforms in the hinterlands and frontier of IT Governance’s comprehension and reach. Whereas the idea of end-user development is not new or novel, the low-code context presents a fresh occasion to understand the breadth and depth of IT professionalizing and present implications for IT Governance, training, and the low-code platforms themselves. This paper theorizes on the emerging challenges and opportunities inherent in the conceptualization of the citizen developer in low code/no code environments.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftIRIS: Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia
Udgave nummer15
Antal sider15
ISSN1891-9863
StatusUdgivet - aug. 2024
BegivenhedThe 47th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. IRIS 2024: Improving Society for ALL with IS - Uddevalla, Sverige
Varighed: 11 aug. 202414 aug. 2024
Konferencens nummer: 47
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Konference

KonferenceThe 47th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. IRIS 2024
Nummer47
Land/OmrådeSverige
ByUddevalla
Periode11/08/202414/08/2024
AndetTogether with The 15th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2024)
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Emneord

  • Low code/no code
  • RPA
  • IT governance
  • IT professionalization

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