Define: "Citizen Developer" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Revoke their API access immediately and claim it was a security mandate."
An employee without formal engineering training who builds applications to improve business efficiency.
What does "Citizen Developer" actually mean?
"A marketing coordinator who accidentally created an unscalable shadow database that IT now has to support."
"Our citizen developer program empowers non-technical staff to build their own tools."
"The citizen developer broke the entire CRM because they didn't know what a primary key was."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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