Software is an expression of the business. To enable this, developers must build software that leads to customer obsession while facing increasing pressure to quickly deliver digital capabilities. This is why, in 2023, we expect to see a major security breach befall citizen development, API strategies taken over by business leaders, metaverse standards remaining a mess, enterprises purchasing value stream management solutions, and WebAssembly growing at the edge. In this report, we explore Forrester’s predictions for software development in 2023.