Designing and Delivering the Citizen Developer Training Program edX - online learning platform

Overview

The Designing and Delivering the Citizen Developer Training Program programme in collaboration with University System of Maryland - USMx is a Professional Certificate. 

Key Facts

According to Gartner's research, by 2025, over 70% of organizations will use citizen-developed applications. The rise in using citizen development is because of an extreme shortage of software developers plus the rising cost of traditional software development. In addition, as organizations transform digitally, there is an increasing need for business applications. Therefore, citizen developers are needed to meet the growing demand for digital business applications.

Citizen Developers need to master a new set of skills to succeed.

Many citizen developers are skilled in business analysis, marketing, or business strategy. They have excellent critical thinking skills and analytical skills. However, citizen developers can be more effective if they acquire design thinking, product development and management, collaboration, customer education, and stakeholder management skills.

What you will learn

• The vital role of learning and development professionals in training citizen developers in power skills.
• How to create training products and programs around the needs of citizen developers to help align no-code/low-code applications around the organization’s strategic goals.
• How to build courses in design thinking, product development/management, and discipline agile project management explicitly tailored for citizen developers.
• How the training department bridges the IT Department and citizen developers.
• How to build a capabilities academy for citizen developers.