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Think IT Association
Mission: “To foster professional growth and development through the power of
networking and collaboration.”
• Think IT is a service of
• Think IT Association was founded in 2009. Each group meets regularly in an informal, roundtable format with a different member from the group facilitating each session.
• The IT Leadership group is designed for all levels of leaders within the IT space including: IT Managers, IT Directors, and VPs of IT within the Twin Cities.
• Link to Leadership Program: • 6-month leadership development course that is designed and led by IT executives from across the metro• Benefits Genesys Works-Twin Cities alumni through the Think IT Young Professionals Scholarship fund
• While there is no cost to be a member of Think IT, it is not FREE and we do ask that members invest their time and experience and be open to facilitating
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B2E Update
For more information, contact: Silvia Hinton at [email protected] you are interested in participating on a panel, becoming a coach, or a mentor,
please let Anna or Rachel know!
A big thank you to the following companies who have hired our B2E students!
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Upcoming Meetings
Save the Date!
Friday, March 13th – Technology Transformation Group Meeting• Topic: Brain Science
• Location: Cargill
• Facilitators: Paula Winkler, COO Partner at The Disruptive Element
Laura Woodward, CEO Principle, Senior Consultant at The Disruptive Element
Thursday, March 19th- Women in Leadership Meeting• Topic: Part 3- Experience Happiness
• Location: Constellation
• Facilitator: Nancy O’Brien, Co-Founder at Experience Happiness
Friday, April 3rd – ITL Meeting
• More details to come!
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Low Code Development
Carey Smith, CTO at Constellation, Inc.
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Pressure
1 CEB
2 Gartner
3 Information Week
Business-led tech spend
is 40% of the IT budget
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What Matters: Velocity & Cost
“In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish; it is the fast fish which eat the slow fish.”
Klaus Schwab
Founder & Executive Chairman
World Economic Forum
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Challenges
• Baggage of legacy IT• Slow; Expensive; Difficult to work with
• Rapidly changing marketplace• Modernization; Disruption
• Digital & business transformation• Growth & Profitability; Customer experience; Market & product differentiation
• Solution delivery value• Speed-to-market; cost; talent
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Response
Emerging Technology
Cloud-Based Digital
Delivery Ecosystememerging tech platform
Modernizationtechnical debt elimination
Product Modelvalue focused
DevSecOpsagile, modern processes & structures
Rapid Delivery Frameworklean, iterative
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Challenges Remain
Market demand for app development will grow at least 5X faster than ITs capacity to deliver it.– Gartner 2019
If demand exceeds supply AND velocity and affordability are critical...
Is low-code development part of the solution?
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Low-code
What is low-code?
Application development platforms that support graphical, model-driven development methodologies that enable teams to collaborate and rapidly build & deploy enterprise-class, cloud-native applications.
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Smart and Connected• Connect to IoT, AI, machine learning,
blockchain, and cognitive services
without needing to be a domain expert
Performance• Built-in automate testing, proactive
quality monitoring, real-time performance
management, monitoring & logging
Continuous Integration• DevOps out-of-the-box
Deployment• Deploy to the cloud of your choice with
one click
Low-code
Visual & Intuitive – design-to-code• UI design & development, process workflow,
business rules/logic created within a model-
based, visual drag-and-drop interface
Reusability• Reuse components, functionality, app services,
integrations, templates, etc
Omni-channel App Development• Even non-designers can quickly create rich,
great looking apps that automatically adapt to
all device form factors
Openness and Extensibility• Support building for any form factor without
having to maintain dedicated code or logic
Info courtesy of Mendix
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Low-code
Model Data, Logic, and UXVisual modeling is faster
Maximize reuseLeverage app store building blocks or create
your own
Deploy to the cloud with a single clickNo time waiting for environments to be provisioned
Iterate RapidlyStop agonizing over requirements
Measure and improve Quality of App Minimize re-work and refactoring times
Automated TestingLimit manual work to test changes
Info courtesy of Mendix
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Low-code
Benefits
Velocity – Robust digital products delivered in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional development methods
Affordability – Lower-tech, lower-cost resources can now deliver robust, quality digital products more cost effectively
Relieve lower-tech developers from writing code while still supporting high-skilled professional developers by eliminating tedious plumbing and infrastructure tasks
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Discussion
“Low-code technology simplifies the building of great software…but…many CIOs are unaware of low-code technology” – Forbes 2018
Who has familiarity or experience with low-code application development technology?
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Discussion
“The low-code market will represent $21B in spending by the end of 2021” – Forrester 2019
“Global low-code development platform market is set to reach $53 billion by 2024, observing a 80% CAGR during 2019-2024” – Vynz Research 2019
Do you see your organization investing in low-code? Why or why not?
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Discussion
“Low-Code Application Platforms will be used for 65% of all application development activity by 2014” – Gartner 2019
Do you believe low-code will be adopted at this rate and become a dominant delivery method?
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Discussion
When selling direct to business leaders, vendors achieve:• 100% increase in contract value• 50% reduction in sales cycles
Are citizen developers a reality?
Will this lead to more business-led IT and technical debt or is this the new normal?
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Discussion
Is low-code a benefit, threat and/or disruptor to IT?
Thank you to Constellation for hosting and to Carey for facilitating!