Future of Citizen Development Series

• Legacy Will Keep Being Born—Tame It Anyway: A Future Vision for Citizen Development (Part 7 of 7) 2025-08-28
  Legacy will always emerge. The future of citizen development lies not in banning it, but in clarifying its role as a draft, partnering with professionals and generative AI, and taming legacy through governance that aligns every vantage point.
• Misaligned Vantage Points Mass-Produce Negative Legacy (Part 6 of 7) 2025-08-27
  Citizen development turns into negative legacy not because of tooling, but because executives, frontline teams, IT, and middle management operate on different time horizons. Their misaligned vantage points elevate short-term wins over long-term stewardship. Understanding that structure reveals what it takes to carry citizen development into the future.
• Citizen Development Isn’t Omnipotent—It Is “Draft Development” (Part 5 of 7) 2025-08-26
  Citizen development is not a path to production-grade systems. Its value lies in acting as a draft that visualizes requirements from the user’s perspective. A well-crafted draft reduces misinterpretation and gaps, improving the precision of professional implementation—provided experts always do the final clean copy.
• The Legacy That Generative AI Saves—and the Legacy It Abandons (Part 4 of 7) 2025-08-25
  Generative AI can analyze and port existing code, but assets that were never expressed as code—like no-code apps or RPA flows—are far harder to rescue. Future debt will concentrate in artifacts left as black boxes.
• The Light and Shadow of Modern Citizen-Development Platforms (Part 3 of 7) 2025-08-24
  RPA and no-code/low-code platforms win hearts with instant results and persuasive visualizations. Yet real-world use demands programming-grade skills and system design, while SaaS/PaaS dependency erodes portability. These traits risk spawning debt even harder to unwind than Kami Excel.
• Was Kami Excel Truly the Villain?—From Savior to Negative Legacy (Part 2 of 7) 2025-08-23
  Kami Excel was not evil. It was a necessary remedy that saved frontline teams, yet it turned into negative legacy because organizations failed to govern it and society lacked IT literacy. Kami Excel was fundamentally readable—had true IT adoption taken hold, it might have been an ideal productivity tool.
• Is Citizen Development the Return of EUC?—Lessons from Kami Excel (Part 1 of 7) 2025-08-22
  Citizen development is not a new idea. Revisiting the history of EUC and Kami Excel reveals a recurring pattern of short-term success turning into long-term debt. By comparing today’s no-code and low-code tools with their predecessors, we can grasp both the risks and possibilities of citizen development.
• Charting the Future of Citizen Development—History, Today, Generative AI, and Beyond (Part 0 of 7) 2025-08-21
  Is citizen development truly the future of software creation, or is it Kami Excel 2.0 reborn? This series follows the history from EUC to RPA and generative AI to explore the real nature and possible futures of citizen development.