For Application Development & Program Management Professionals (Length: 19 pages)

April 15, 2009

Deputize End-User Developers To Deliver Business Agility And Reduce Costs

Accentuate The Positives, Eliminate The Negatives Of End-User Development

by Mike Gualtieri

with Mike Gilpin, Mary Gerush, John R. Rymer, Wallis Yu


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

The ranks of businesspeople who are capable of developing applications are swelling due to a combination of the technology-savvy Millennial generation entering the workforce, the proliferation of easy-to-use development tools, and burgeoning demand for applications. These businesspeople don't want developers' jobs; they just want to get things done. Their enthusiasm, however, may lead to poorly designed, insecure, and unscalable applications that application development professionals inherit. Instead of trying to shut down end-user development, application development professionals should help users succeed so that everyone wins — most importantly, the business. The application development professional's call to action is to embrace end-user developers to amplify — not squash — their contribution to the business by bringing some semblance of order to unfettered end-user development and by collaborating with end-user developers on strategic projects.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemThe Ranks Of Businesspeople Who Develop Applications Are Swelling

itemDon't Fight It. Don't Ignore It. Embrace It.

itemElevate Your Strategy To Include End-User Developers

recommendations

itemSeize The End-User Developer Opportunity

WHAT IT MEANS

itemTools Are Not Enough; End-User Developers Also Need Process

Forrester interviewed application development professionals, software vendors, and computer scientists.

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Analyst: Mike Gualtieri
Technology: Application Development, Application Development Management, Application Development Roles & Responsibilities, Architecture & Technology Strategy
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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