Low-Code Geeks && Suits Pair Programming!
Mark Finnern
Moving Innovation | Co-Creating Culture | Black Forest meets Silicon Valley
Pair?Programming?Writing By?Mark Finnern?&&?Njal Stabell
[Njal] This idea was inspired by something that happened in 2011. The same year?Ole Andre?and I founded Neptune Software and presented our solution at SAP TechEd in Madrid.
[Mark]: That year?SAP’s two most significant European events Sapphire && SAP TechEd were co-located. If memory serves us right, about 7000 business people were joined by about 4000 Techies flocking to Madrid. During the first keynote, the always funny Master of Ceremony Ian Kimbell joked:?
Sapphire and TechEd is united under one roof this week. — You Geeks in the audience! There are Businesspeople here! Please be kind to the Suits!”
The SAP Mentors, spearheaded by Chris Karneghan, got the hint and actually ran with it and started gently asking people wearing suits whether they could hug them. They took pictures and posted them on Twitter with the hashtag?#HugASuit?or?#SuitHugger
The following day you could see SAP Mentors huddled around, wondering which Suit they had not hugged yet.
While the executives would come into the SAP Mentor room with a big smile opening their arms saying:?
Where is the Mentor love?
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I haven’t got a hug yet!With these lovely interactions, the barriers between Business and IT were broken down, and the stage was set for unique collaborations and innovations.
[Both] Similarly, Low-Code solutions offer an enormous opportunity for mutually beneficial collaboration
Low-code solutions offer an enormous opportunity to bridge the gap between IT and the other company departments.?
Let’s empower the department power-users
We see a golden age coming, where solutions are developed and quickly iterated by power users in the departments with friendly IT guidance.?
The flexibility, joy of development, and pride of solution ownership
Lastly, and maybe most importantly, let’s bond/blur the lines between Geeks and Suits and together create a better world!
Principal, Enterprise Applications Consulting
3 年It's a great article, and I'm definitely a believer. I wish Andreessen would stop trying to destroy the world with klepto-crypto, and some other tech-bro horrors, but that's a different issue. Geeks and Suits indeed: the more there's a meeting of the minds between these two groups, the better. I have two reservations: suits need to have a bigger perspective on what tech means in their organizations -- they shouldn't build just anything they feel like, shadow apps aren't healthy either. And IT has to be comfortable with saying Yes or just standing by and saying nothing until a little guidance is needed. This could be the start of something big: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp84-EZ3Ecg
SAP BTP Technical & Security Architect, BTP Administration & SAP Mentor & SAP Press Author. SAP BTP Cloud Foundry & Kyma Runtimes, CAP, Fiori, SAP Build WorkZone & Process Automation, Cloud Identity Services (IAS/IPS).
3 年Very good explanation of Low Code development tools by Mark Finnern & Njal Stabell. It is a “Pair Programming” which helps power-users to work “Shoulder to Shoulder” with developers. ? I see in many other discussions, there is an expectation of taking developers out of the game with LCNC tools. It might look fancy in theory but it must also be considered that software development is not only coding. There are many different activities taken care of developers during the software development lifecycle. LCNC tools can help organizations to save the coding time and spend more time on the business requirements, user experience, software design etc.
Moving Innovation | Co-Creating Culture | Black Forest meets Silicon Valley
3 年This picture wasn't during that Madrid Saphhire/TechEd combination event, but one of the many reverberations of the #suithugger campaign and one of my favorite pictures. With Martin Gillet; Abdulbas?t Gül?en; Vitaliy Rudnytskiy
Amazing support, comradery, and playfulness ??