low-code

Not many people realize this, but no-code and low-code apps are quite sophisticated now. You can create both web and mobile apps with little to no code. I brought on a no-code developer to share his journey in this field. We talked about quite a few things:

1. Who is this career right for?
2. What are no-code and low-code apps actually capable of? And what are their current limitations?
3. What paid opportunities exist for people that want to get into this field?
4. The progression of this movement over the next 3-5 years.
5. Will this movement replace software engineers?
6. And additional advice sprinkled in throughout the episode.

For those just wanting to break into tech, this episode is for you. Enjoy!

Dan Hafner (guest):
Website - https://dappermobileapps.com

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One of the special dispositions we respect the most in founders is this: to be unstoppable. Although what this means exactly will vary from context to context, generally it shows when someone is driven by purpose. We all have to reroute from time to time, but we shouldn’t lose track of our dreams.

Well, that is something that becomes amazingly clear when you meet June Swatzell.

At the beginning of 2020, June launched OrganicNearby. Its mission is to make healthy and safe food available to consumers at large, connecting them with farmers, local producers, and providers. But June had almost no technical skills to pull that off. What she had was her tireless disposition, which drove her to dive into the startup community many years before to learn the way of things and to create meaningful connections that made her dream closer to becoming reality.

And, after trying to do it with regular coding, she made it all happen with #nocode. Check out the chat she had with our CEO, Daniel Weinmann, to know all about it!

- June's background as an entrepreneur, and as a community activist with the mission to change lives
- OrgnicNearby: what it is and how it came to be
- The choice of using Bubble to create the product
- The differences in the search for a developer that works with code and one that works with no code
- The beauty and the benefits of a mission-driven startup
- What are the challenges of building a product with Bubble?
- How long am I going to take to launch an MVP using Bubble?
- How far will OrganicNearby go without code?
- How is the product maintenance currently done?
- The different people and behaviors of the startup community
- The founder's previous experience with regular coding
- No code in the future

We hope you enjoy this rich conversation! And, please, share with us your questions, thoughts, and insights.

Video version: https://youtu.be/ErtZMaz_bVc

More about OrganicNearby and June Swatzell on:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/june-swatzell-8965a914/
https://organicnearby.com

More about Daniel on:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielweinmann/

More about Seasoned on:
https://www.seasoned.cc
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Chandra Khatri,  Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI, was a key team member in the early days of AI at eBay, Amazon, and Uber. He has been on the cutting edge of NLP research for more than a decade and now leads AI at Got It AI. Chandra and the team are making it easier for customers to have conversations with bots.  He's making innovative use of transformers and active learning to use "small data" to train sophisticated large language models to automatically answer customer questions in fields as diverse as healthcare, financial services, education, and defense.

Listen and learn… 

1. What the AI culture is like at eBay, Amazon, and Uber 
2. About transformers, why they’re important, and how they're improving NLP accuracy 
3. How we’ve moved AI from search ranking (recommender systems) to other use cases including operations and bots 
4. How the rise of open source and no-code tools is making “Google-like” AI maturity accessible to every company 
5. How startups with limited access to data can use transfer learning to improve AI accuracy 
6. What’s holding back broader adoption of AI in the enterprise 
7. How the rise of Technical Product Managers (TPMs) is bridging the gap between engineers and business analysts 
8. How to eliminate bias from training data 
9. How long before we’ll all have a personal JARVIS 

References in this episode… 

• Got It AI 
• Chandra on LinkedIn 
• Hugging Face
• Christopher Nguyen on AI and the Future of Work

In der 40. Episode des Smart Innovation Podcast ist Dr. Sven Schmidt-Rohr von Artiminds Robotik mein Gesprächspartner. Wir unterhalten uns über sensoradaptive Robotik und eine Skizze für das vollständige digitale Unternehmen.

Auf der Episoden Webseite sind weiterführende Informationen & ein Transkript: https://www.klausreichert.de/sven-schmidt-rohr-uber-sensoradaptive-robotik-und-eine-skizze-fur-das-vollstandige-digitale-unternehmen/

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Innovation, Innovationsmanagement, Unternehmertum und Verantwortung im Kontext des Klimawandels

Umsetzungsorientiert & fokussiert auf Innovation

Gespräche mit engagierten und kreativen Menschen über Innovation, Innovationsmanagement, Unternehmertum und Verantwortung - gerade im Kontext des Klimawandels.

Dabei sein & Mitreden bei den Live Aufnahmen

Bei den Live Aufnahmen können die Teilnehmenden sich einbringen und Fragen stellen

Vom Zuhören ins Umsetzen kommen

In jeder Folge gibt es ein kurzzeitig verfügbares Angebot. So wird Innovation für die Teilnehmenden lebendig und gleich umsetzbar.

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Im Smart Innovation Podcast geht es um innovative agile Organisationen mit Vision, Dynamik und Energie sowie den passenden Vorgehensweisen, Neues auch enkeltauglich zu entwerfen. Ebenso geht es um wechselnde aktuelle Themen wie neue Geschäftsmodelle, nachhaltige Produkte & digitale Dienstleistungen. Episoden erscheinen zum Wochenende bei Apple, Spotify, Youtube & Co. Aktuelle Termine sowie alle Folgen mit Links und Transkript auf https://www.klausreichert.de/podcast/

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Sie sollten den Podcast hören, wenn Sie eine kreative, gemeinsame, pragmatische Form des Innovationsmanagement suchen. Er wendet sich an engagierte Menschen, die ihr Unternehmen durch Innovation weiter entwickeln wollen und sich nicht mit bürokratischen Lösungen zufrieden geben. Die etwas für die Zukunft dazu lernen wollen und sich gerne auch mit ihrem Wissen und ihren Erfahrungen einbringen. Das sind mutige UnternehmerInnen, Innovationsmanager, Produktmanager, Organisationsentwickler, Business Designer, Product Owner, Nachhaltigkeitsmanager, Klimaschutzbeauftragte: das Feld ist ziemlich groß, die Jobbezeichnungen sehr vielfältig.

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Mein Name ist Klaus Reichert. Ich bin unabhängiger Berater und Business Coach mit Herzblut für Innovation und begleite Unternehmen auf dem Weg von der Vision zu Leistungen. Mein Standort ist #TheLänd Baden-Württemberg: https://www.klausreichert.de

Podcast Episode! Season Finale! SOMEONE DIES

James and I get together to expertly wrap all the amazing guests, topics, and information we digested over the course of season two. Stay tuned! Someone dies!

This season we had the extreme privilege to talk to these awesome folks. Go back and give these episodes a listen.

• Em D’Arcy regaled us with tales of governance
• Shane Young democratized our thoughts on low-code utility
• Matthias Steiner straightened us out on platforms and app delivery
• Holger Bruchelt brought home high-powered SAP and Microsoft unity

If you take anything home from this whole thing, it’s that there’s a lot more to unpack in this universe. We’ve got answers for governance, delivery, integration — but those things are just the beginning! 

Teams have to evolve. Technologists have to evolve. We’re going to plug away at a new question in our upcoming season. Stay tuned to find out more!

The Metaverse: Innovation or Skinnovation?

• The metaverse we’re building right now is not the metaverse we’ll all end up using…if we end up using the metaverse at all.
• Don’t worry about what competitors and enterprises are doing in the metaverse, worry instead about how you should break into this new world.
• “The current Web3 and metaverse implementation that we see today feels like small teams of developers who have created something really unique and they're going direct to their own consumer. And that feels fundamentally different than what we have seen in the past.”
• Developers used to need layers of translation, project managers, and program managers to get a job done. Today’s developers are going directly to their customers. We call this the Developer DTC.
• People were always collecting items & attaching value to items. NFTs are not a new phenomenon. The technology enables this behavior in a new way.
• Unlike Web2 and the telegram, which were built as information-first technologies to which commerce added value, the metaverse seems to be about commerce before information.
• “Low-code and no-code capabilities make it easy to kind of create a new generation of developers. Low-code and no-code unlocks a lot of potential in developers to spend time on sales and marketing and other things.” - Boris

Associated Links:

• Learn more about Boris Lokschin and Spryker!
• Check out Excite 2022, Spryker’s eCommerce Conference in June

Have any questions or comments about the show? Let us know on Futurecommerce.com, or reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. We love hearing from our listeners!

Talentgrid'in katkılarıyla sezonun yedinci bölümü yayında!

Developer experience serisinin ikinci bölümünde, low-code, no-code ve CoPilot gibi yazılım geliştirme ekosistemine kısmen yeni dahil olan yeni yaklaşımları tartıştık.

https://talentgrid.io/codefiction

List of topics/themes discussed in the episode

1. Why do you need to tackle the 'unsexy' stuff of enterprise digitalization as a precursor to AI; why does scalability matter more than scale in RPA projects; about Lasse Rindom, and coming up with an organization-wide framework for decentralized management of RPA projects? [00:00-00:18]
   • Proof-of-Concept vs. Proof of Value — 0:15    
   • Lasse's year-end satirical predictions about the enterprise software world on his LinkedIn Profile — 2:35
   • Coming up with an organization-wide framework for decentralized management of RPA projects — 4:30
   • Bad/cliché questions RPA vendors/consultants ask when starting to come up with an RPA solution. — 10:50  
   • How to adopt Low-Code/No-Code apps and even RPA from the SIPOC lens (where LCNC resides in 'I' or Input part of data flow and RPA resides in 'P' or process part of data flow — 14:20  
   • Language gap between IT and business — 18:10 
2. Lasse's background education as a history major, evolution vs. revolution, the danger of posing complex problems as simple, shoemaker's kids have worn-out shoes, and why LCNC makes sense (17:42 — 00:39)
   • Lasse's interesting background as Masters of History and did it help take a more holistic approach to his field of work? 17:42
   • Why does Lasse believe in evolution instead of revolutions? — 21:40
   • What did a history lesson about witches tell Lasse about the importance of being able to acknowledge different world views? — 25:35
   • Why complex problems should not be posed as simple and the danger of doing so (Brexit as an example)? — 28:50
   • Why does it make so much sense to have more Low-Code/No-Code apps? — 00:38
   • Baker Tilly Digital — 00:39
3. SMV.Digital grants program, a valuable 'licensing model' Lasse carved out to globally implement RPA capabilities in ISS A/S, and his year-end predictions [00:44—01:09]
   • What is SMV Digital program for the Danish businesses that can apply for a grant of DKK 25,000? — 00:44  
   • An interesting 'licensing model' for enterprise-grade RPA projects — 00:53
   • Lasse's predictions that he shared on his LinkedIn profile, we discuss two of them; EU Low-Law and the definition of Citizen Developer (CD), and RPA gets to scale, finally. — 00:59 
   • The Low-Code/No-Code pitch, where does it fit into an organization's data flow? 01:07
   • Sign-off — 01:09 

List of topics/themes discussed in the episode

1. Introduction 0:00
   • The concept behind Digital Transformation debt
   • The real-world impact of digital transformation debt
     Importance of balancing do-it-quick style innovation with governance
   • Who is the audience for his book?
2. What’s the drawback of postponing digital transformation and accumulating debt? 15:45
   • Driving a cart with square wheels
   • Examples where low-code innovation makes the most sense
   • Which leadership style is more suitable to drive change in an agile way?
3. How do enterprise leaders make low-code/no-code projects become a success story throughout the company? 24:20
   • Role of Center of Excellence in alleviating digital transformation debt
   • Who leads the center of excellence, business, or IT?
4. Parting message to enterprise leaders 43:30
   • What did Dr. Setrag have to say to executives who want to innovate faster without wasting time and money?

We discussed no-code one year ago with Ben Tossell, from Makerpad, a few weeks before he sold his company to Zapier, in what would become the first Zapier acquisition ever.

One year later, we decided to bring an expert in the subject, Nile Frater (Director @ NoCode.Tech) to bring us an update on the state-of-the-art of the no-code/low-code/less-code/wtf-code industry.

We discuss at length the myths and legends of no-code and the conversation turns into a career plan for non-technical people, to repurpose themselves into pseudo-technical profiles who can build software, thanks to the progress of no-code tools.

Also, we discuss how big corporations can build teams of no-code people to replace the need for engineers for everything. Sometimes, some automations and a landing page will do, and you can do that by combining Typeform, SquareSpace, Stripe and Zapier, for instance.

We discuss this, and much more, with Nile, who comes all the way from Scotland and now resides in Barcelona, but we'll discuss weather on another episode!

🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/

🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/

Phani Tangirala, Senior Director, Delivery, Operations & Solutions, Expleo Solutions

Hyper-automation is a business-driven approach that should allow you to identify and automate many of your manual business processes and IT processes. It is a way of bringing together a multiplicity of technologies, tools and platforms that will improve your efficiency and speed of delivery. It is also likely to be unavoidable if you want to stay in business for the long term! Phani Tangirala, Senior Director, Delivery, Operations & Solutions of Expleo Solutions talks hyper-automation with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.

In our new episode, our CEO, Tiago Neves and Head of Practice & Development in Growth & Strategy, Rashid Anis, discuss the value of market insights by industry experts Gartner and Forrester.  Have a listen as they debate the importance of these reports and  how they impact the industry! 

Podcast Episode! Builders and the Developer Spectrum with Riley Rainey

James and I spoke with the super-interesting Riley Rainey. Before you get to any of the regular industry-specific goodness we talk about, check out his GitHub repositories focused around replicating the Apollo Guidance Computer. I was tempted not to talk about anything in the SAP or development world and just blast on about nerdy space things. But we did eventually move on to things in the here-and-now, and it was great fun. 

Riley and Episode Highlights

• At SAP for 8 years, past 3 in developer relations
• Studied computer science in school, jumped into financial modeling
• “Rambled around” in software from case management tools, to mobility, cloud, platforms, to developer relations — and others
• Built an open-source multiplayer flight simulator!

We coaxed Riley into this photo by pretending to be rocket scientists

• Kill a week — go find the NASA tech report server .
• From Riley’s perspective, pro-code does have an important distinction from citizen developers using low-code.
• The important thing is the guard rails set up in the citizen developer universe.
• All heads nodding in agreement: SAP CoE’s still largely isolated from other tech teams
• The promise is there for low-code tools to eat away at IT backlogs.

Money Quotes

Riley

Find a way to get out and do something different! You get exposed to different classes of problems.

A builder is anybody who is involved in the construction of software for other people. 

When you graduate to doing things for more than just yourself…the considerations become very different. 

Now we’re all citizen developers. Are we all citizen security people? Are we all citizen designers?

James

Figure out ways to bring the right teams together so everyone can play to their respective strengths. The community aspect is so important. [re: low-code and pro-code skillsets mingling together]

Paul

There are so many ways to produce so many software artifacts for so many different audiences.

The tools are ahead of the governance they require.

Sanjiva Weerawarana (@sanjiva, CEO of @wso2) talks about the intersection of low-code and business applications, the Ballerina language, and the WSO2 iPaaS platform Choreo. 

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SHOW NOTES:

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• WSO2 iPaaS (Choreo)
• Ballerina Programming Language
• Choreo: A simultaneous low-code and code platform for productive development
• Try Choreo now - it's free!

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as an inventor, prior to founding WSO2.

Topic 2 - We are at a stage where every business opportunity requires new applications, and every application requires integration with multiple systems. Let’s begin by talking about your philosophy behind the Choreo iPaaS platform. 

Topic 3 - How do you view the intersection between low-code visual coding and the needs to get under the hood of the code for professional developers? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the common application-types or usage-patterns you’re seeing with early users of Choreo? What are some of the patterns that have surprised you? 

Topic 5 - Organizationally, do you see the iPaaS platform as being operated by an integrated team, or did you design it to be flexible about which teams/groups are engaged with or around the platform?

Topic 6 - There is quite a bit of intelligence and self-service built into the platform. Where do AI-driven guidance and self-service marketplaces fit into the way developers do their day-to-day jobs? 

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Cloud was supposed to make computing easier, but it’s now as complicated or more complicated than legacy data centers and apps. Is there any future in a simpler cloud?

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SHOW NOTES:

• DigitalOcean has an IPO

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APPLICATIONS - SaaS, RPA, Low-Code and PaaS v2

• Small Business as-a-Service
• Multinational Business-as-a-Service
• DemandGen-as-a-Service

PRICING - Cost Management has its own complex ecosystem

• The cloud bill is always an unknown

INTERCONNECTING SERVICES - Are the APIs easy enough to integrate

• Mulesoft, Red Hat Integration, Apigee, etc. for the older stuff
• Is cross-SaaS integration easy enough? 

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Technology has had a massive impact on many different industries, ranging from farming to healthcare. However, a sector we don't usually think about when it comes to technology is sports. In this episode, we dive into the role of technology in the sports industry with Senior Software Tester, Siobhán Heaton and OutSystems Developer, Gary Williams.