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• 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 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.
• 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.