disrupting business: the rise of citizen developers
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Presentation given at Disrupting Business: Social Business Symposium on Oct 29 for SJSU students.TRANSCRIPT
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