TY - GEN
T1 - Beyond Citizen Development
T2 - 30th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2024
AU - Viljoen, Altus
AU - Altın, Ege Naz
AU - Hein, Andreas
AU - Krcmar, Helmut
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 30th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2024. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Low-code development platforms (LCDPs) significantly increase software development productivity by enabling users to develop and deploy applications with minimal coding required. However, despite LCDPs' productivity benefits and widespread adoption by individuals with no formal coding background (“citizen developers”), professional developers remain skeptical about implementing LCDPs for their own tasks, questioning LCDPs' capability for “real” development. This study explores this skepticism through 18 interviews with professional developers. We find that professional developers' willingness to adopt LCDPs can be explained by constructs of established technology acceptance theory and by different types of software development tasks that professionals believe LCDPs can take over (namely repetitive and conceptual tasks). Based on our findings, we contribute to LCDP and technology adoption literature and provide recommendations to make LCDPs more appealing to professional developers. These guidelines aim to assist LCDP providers and organizations in broadening LCDPs' appeal and encouraging adoption among professional users.
AB - Low-code development platforms (LCDPs) significantly increase software development productivity by enabling users to develop and deploy applications with minimal coding required. However, despite LCDPs' productivity benefits and widespread adoption by individuals with no formal coding background (“citizen developers”), professional developers remain skeptical about implementing LCDPs for their own tasks, questioning LCDPs' capability for “real” development. This study explores this skepticism through 18 interviews with professional developers. We find that professional developers' willingness to adopt LCDPs can be explained by constructs of established technology acceptance theory and by different types of software development tasks that professionals believe LCDPs can take over (namely repetitive and conceptual tasks). Based on our findings, we contribute to LCDP and technology adoption literature and provide recommendations to make LCDPs more appealing to professional developers. These guidelines aim to assist LCDP providers and organizations in broadening LCDPs' appeal and encouraging adoption among professional users.
KW - Low-code development platform
KW - no-code
KW - software development professional
KW - UTAUT
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85204105226&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85204105226
T3 - 30th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2024
BT - 30th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2024
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 15 August 2024 through 17 August 2024
ER -