The term "Citizen Developer" is still vastly unrecognized and unrepresented in the job hunting market. What job titles are you seeing being used for Citizen Developer Practitioners? Saving Changes...
Kiron, that's an interesting concept! One that I would love to learn more about. And I believe more likely to be closer to what I am looking for. What do you think those roles would look like?
The former would be focused on ensuring that the benefits of CD don't come at the expense of quality requirements such as security, compliance, scalability and so on. The latter would work with analysts in different areas to help them learn a given CD tool and then support them as they implement solutions. Saving Changes...
Anton OosthuizenSenior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self EmployedPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
The point really is that we have yet another label on something that does not need one. The concept of citizen developer can be applied to anybody who is computer literate. The office manager can put together a to-do list with reminders and dependencies in 15 minutes, the data analyst can do a BI platform with dashboards in 30 minutes or the personal assistant can create a gift registry in 20 minutes. What do they all have in common?
a) none of their primary jobs included development
b) they all had a need to satisfy without waiting on a backlog for 6 months
c) their job titles are very far removed from each other
Don't look for job titles, look for required skills i.e. MS Power Automate, UiPath, Blue Prism, etc. If an 'office' job requires skills/experience like this then most likely you will land up doing CD stuff. Saving Changes...
Matthew HubbardHead of Operational Excellence| TrackViaSugar Grove, Il, United States
For the last decade, I think the focus has been on proving out the technology for citizen developers (i.e., LCNC platforms). So, job postings I have seen are specific to the technology (e.g., TrackVia Administrator).
Now that LCNC technology is largely accepted and PMI has entered the arena to help formalize Citizen Development, I expect we will start to see "citizen development" terminology creep into job postings. Saving Changes...
Ghislain NkuluData Analyst Scrum Master / DMO Citizen Data Scientist| @CDOTDenver, Co, United States
Some employer who are aware of the Citizen Development movement, will post the job as Citizen Developer but most Entry-Level Jobs are Citizen Developer jobs. The definition says “ Student or professional who want to build Apps using Low-Code/No-Code Technology Platform” so by definition anyone who never build an app who want to build an app with low-code/no-code is automatically a citizen developer Saving Changes...
Ghislain NkuluData Analyst Scrum Master / DMO Citizen Data Scientist| @CDOTDenver, Co, United States
Victoria,
You are right but A "Citizen Developer" is actually a Junior Developer instead. If you search for Jr. Developer on Indeed you will find Saving Changes...
Gregory BohlingVice President Sales and Customer Success| Alpha Software CorporationAuburn, Ma, United States
The whole point of "Citizen Development" is that there are tools that allow "line of business" employees to craft the applications / technologies they need in order to do their jobs "better." A Citizen Developer can be anyone within an organization. While it's true that analyst roles often excel at it, I see CD all over organizations.
What Citizen Development can do is empower employees who are closest to the task at hand to help craft the tools needed to be most effective. In the "old" days this might have been the person who was a spreadsheet power user. Now the tools are at a point that people can fairly quickly and easily put together entire mobile applications to digitize and automate their work. But the point is that this development is spread all over the organization so that it can take advantage of domain expertise. Saving Changes...
Kumara BadhugeProject Manager| Ministry of Transport and CommunicationsDoha, Qatar, Qatar
Hi Victora, I too could not find "Citizen Developer" as a job title.
However the practice and processes of Citizen Development seem to be applicable in jobs / opportunities in freelancers' world as shown in below.
As many have said earlier, Citizen development were seen even in late 90s by the practitioners, who always wanted to improve the processes known to them in organizations, sometime creating issues.
By recognizing "Citizen Development" as a practice in the world, it has given common standards, processes and governance model for "Citizen Developers", so they and their contributions will bring benefits to the world, same as Citizen Scientists. Saving Changes...
I would to think of the title as CD coach just like certified agile coach, sports coach, etc. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Hi Victoria,
this whole CD idea reminds me of running into a guy using Excel in his retail business in 1987. He was using it to automate and simplify his business tasks, making his insights better and his decisions quicker. He invested a good amount of experimenting to create excel sheets. Some time later we all did this.
And we soon found Excel courses, certifications, coaches and job postings included Excel skills, along your skills to do the job. And consultants making money with it. Today, thanks to Steve Jobs, intuitive UIs are standard.
And going back even further, I remember reading typewriting skills on job postings, before we had PCs.
In my view, CD is a current hype in the long story of digitalisation.
Thomas
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Stéphane Parent
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"Today, thanks to Steve Jobs, intuitive UIs are standard."
I think we can go farther back to HP (formerly, Xerox) PARC for the introduction of GUIs. Of course, some people might say SAP is bucking the trend of intuitive UI.
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Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
I've been doing citizen development for most of my career. I'm currently doing citizen development as part of my correspondence writing assignment. Don't forget that citizen development is not just about creating solutions. It can be as simple as creating tools to help you work. Saving Changes...
