No-code/low-code helps digitally transform companies, and also empowers a wide range of people outside of IT departments by giving them new, vital skill sets.
I’ve frequently written about low-code/no-code tools can digitally transform businesses. But it’s easy to forget that the platforms don’t only transform businesses --- they also transform people's lives, and for the better.
The Economist’s article “What if all workers wrote software, not just the geek elite?” offers plenty of evidence about how low-code/no-code do both those things.
The article starts out by giving a typical example of the platforms’ benefits. A technician for the Australian telecom firm Telstra wrote an app “that unified 70 messaging systems for reporting phone-line problems.” He did it using low-code/no-code tools despite having never written code before. The result: 1,300 Telstra technicians use the app, saving the company $12 million annually.
Not a bad payoff for a single app written by someone with no coding background.
Because of these kinds of benefits, the article notes, “Such tools are in hot demand.” It points out that only 25 million people worldwide are considered fluent in standard programming languages, according to research firm Evans Data Corporation – 1.4 million fewer than companies need. That’s only going to get worse, according to IDC, which says by 2025 there will be a shortfall of 4 million.
The answer to the problem is to use low-code/no-code platforms. And that’s happening in a dramatic way, according to the article. It notes “IDC reckons the low/no coders numbered 2.6m globally in 2021. It expects their ranks to swell by an average of 40% a year until 2025, three times as fast as the total developer population.”
What’s also happening is that the people who use the platforms to write code are having their lives transformed as well, in often dramatic ways. For example, it notes, “Cheryl Feldman went from a junior position in a hair salon to a technical career at Salesforce, a software firm, thanks to lc/nc [low-code/no-code]. Samit Saini changed jobs after 13 years as a security guard at Heathrow to become an ‘IT solution specialist’ at the airport” after using a low-code/no-code platform.
The article points out that professional developers will continue to be in high demand, but so will those who write using low-code/no-code. It concludes: “Pro devs will continue writing their firms’ core products and mission-critical enterprise systems. But they will increasingly be complemented by legions of enterprising line-of-business workers with a software-development string to their bow. For employers, this means greater productivity. For employees, it could be life-changing. In 2019 the Telstra technician became senior business specialist for field digitisation and has since been promoted again.”
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