Learning Coding may no longer be required
Mirjam Bamberger
European Management Committee | Non-Executive Board Director | Voice in Insurance
Only few years ago, we were told to learn coding. In fact, everyone in the company should at least write a piece of software for once - similar to learning a foreign language. Today, I hear that software may disappear. And learning foreign languages may soon no longer be required.
It is hard to imagine a world without software.?Software permeates everything, laptop, phone, most of the tools and devices we use every day. “Everyone should learn how to program because it teaches you how to think”. Steve Job's historic line from 2015 still features on today's White House websites. It is doubled up by plenty of articles why learning how to code will make you a better leader.
And yet, this is why and how this may change: "No-code" or low-code is the way forward. Most company applications are built by the professional programmers. And yet there are millions of potential application ideas?that never get built.?With only 27 million programmers worldwide, there is an blatant truth: They are far too few. Product features and specification never make it to production. When a product is released - important user functionality went missing. We simply don't have enough programming resources.?
Now, imagine you turn into a developer yourself, without much programming. "Low-code" or "no-code" systems already exist today.?Most of them are easy-to-use. They are visual drag-and-drop tool kits with which you can easily build an application?by moving UI parts around the screen.?Users, and not professional developers, can use these systems?to build small applications as in as fast as 20 minutes. They can piece together an application and connect it to data, without the need to write much code.?
No-code platforms enable every person in your organization?to build applications?and share them with their team members.?Imagine the pool of millions?of power users - business analysts, office administrators,?and small business owners - who have great ideas and good technical skills,?but little knowledge of traditional programming languages.
These "citizen developers", as Gartner defines the term, can create application capabilities for consumption?by using tools?(...of course, only the ones that are not actively forbidden by your IT). When ready, the App can be instantly shared?to your team or company.?Microsoft's Power Platform is only one of those tool kits with pre-built standardized data connectors?and services for working with your SharePoint, Excel spreadsheet or database.?
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A citizen developer is rather a persona (or set of skills), not a title or targeted role. In large organisations, this makes quite a difference. As today's question is how organisations can leverage this pool of mostly untapped skills at scale.
With the lack of programming resources, we are likely to see a rapid rise?in adoption of low-code systems.?Gartner estimates that by nex year, low-code application development will account for 65%?of all application development activity,?mostly for small and medium-sized projects.?
Here we are. Everyone of us can be a software developer: If you can dream it, you can create it. Has your organisation found a way to scale it?
Mirjam Bamberger is member of the Management Committee of AXA's European Markets & Latin America. Until January 2022, she has been?CEO of AXA Luxembourg and CEO of AXA Wealth Europe. Prior to this she served in various roles as a board member of AXA Switzerland, having completed an international trajectory in High Tech and Financial Services across US, Asia and Europe
Connecting business & technology to improve results in B2B & B2B2C Channels | Country Manager, Director | Embedded Insurance, Consumer Finance, Leasing | Sales, Digital Transformation, Business & Product Development
1 年While technical knowledge and programming logic are necessary for someone without technology experience to create something relevant, current programmers will become increasingly efficient with the help of artificial intelligence and low-code platforms. It's already happening. And let's not forget about UX and UI, which make all the difference when launching a successful digital product. Good discussion!
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1 年No code is just code written in another way (graphically, and paradox less visual, since all the visual items ??hide?? more than they reveal the implementation logic). And most of the time in a less efficient way… … with people not understanding that this is actually code running… Since ??code?? and ??no code?? need the same ??design?? logic. Many people translate ??no code?? (in the meaning of no ??code source file express in a programming language??) in ??no design??. We see the result every day in the catastrophic result in implementation. People understand less and less what is IT… I would say that if people understand what is IT design, they will be at ease with both : ??code?? and ??no code??. The actual ??no code?? will only happens if we jump to another It paradigm not based on procedural approach we use since the 40’s (more than 80 years…).
Member of the Management Board (Innovation, Payments, Sustainability) at ABBL
1 年Eric Groenendaels Pierre Knoden
Account Director @ Genesys - Transform and elevate customer experience to differentiate in your market
1 年Very interesting article about how software will evolve. Thank you Mirjam Bamberger. Appian delivers end-to-end process automation based on low code. Global insurance companies like Aon, Aviva, Aegon and more are already gaining on efficency, agility and speed.
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1 年Thanks for posting this, interesting aspect indeed Mirjam Bamberger