{"id":4727,"date":"2020-03-12T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:03:02","slug":"agile-codeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustechsolutions.com\/agile-codeless\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Agile Codeless?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Agile Codeless is transforming how businesses create the applications they need to service their business models.&nbsp; Find out why it&#8217;s so different to what&#8217;s come before.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Agile Codeless is a software development life-Cycle *(SDLC) approach that embraces codeless authoring methods and tools to produce enterprise apps.&nbsp; Developed by NDMC Consulting over a decade of enterprise software projects, it removes the barriers that exist between IT and the Business when authoring enterprise applications software..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The challenges of developing software applications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A level of trial and error can be expected for any creative activity but the excessive risks of software authoring are born out in studies both in terms of slow time to market and burgeoning costs. The article \u2018<em>Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think<\/em>\u2019 by HBR (November 2011) followed a survey of <strong>1,471<\/strong> IT projects with an average spend of <strong>$167m <\/strong>and found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The average overrun was <strong>27%<\/strong><\/li><li>One in six projects studied experienced a cost overrun of over 200%.<\/li><li>Almost <strong>70% <\/strong>of black swan projects also overrun their schedules.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the pitfalls of software applications development are by now well documented the IT industry has been singularly unable to overcome them.&nbsp; But as globalization increases apace, business models change ever more rapidly and organizations seek to leverage \u2018Big Data\u2019, the need to reliably produce <em>better<\/em> applications right-first-time has never been more critical.&nbsp; This booklet examines the CAAD methodology for creating applications and the reasons behind its timely arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An unprecedented pace of change in business models is creating a need for more agile IT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For a hundred years management thinking has valued mechanization over creativity\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>..but after decades of automation, the core business processes of organizations are pretty slick \u2013 that is until <em>markets<\/em> <em>change<\/em> and business models need to realign. Then concepts of operational excellence evangelized by management consultants sound hollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the very <em>structure<\/em> of markets change, smaller, more nimble companies benefitting from closer ties to their customers, and a clearer understanding of their value, are able to steal a march on vendors 100 times their size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even global brands aren\u2019t safe &#8211; new aggressors can emerge from a different industry altogether to take a big bite out of a market they see as fair game in an open, global market-place (such as retailers venturing into the car insurance market for example).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cInstitutionally, the ability to be agile enough is the gut issue in leading an organization today.\u201d&nbsp; James McNearney &#8211; CEO, Boeing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizations that could once survive without reviewing business models more than once a decade are now forced to re-assess annually. The new mantra of business excellence is <em>agility<\/em> \u2013 to create an enterprise that can <em>adapt<\/em> <em>to always win in its most addressable markets<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Powering enterprise agility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Key to the drive for agility is the need to empower <em>middle managers<\/em>; people with the energy, skills and curiosity to question <em>why <\/em>processes work as they do and find new ways to distil customer value. Leaders are coming to realize that leadership <em>at all levels of the enterprise<\/em> is vital.&nbsp; This critical tier of \u2018corporals\u2019 demand systems and tools to understand and adapt their assets and resources to fit internal processes to the ever changing business landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is driving demand for a new tier of applications that harvest data from existing sources to create new applications that response to new situations (\u2018situational applications\u2019) as they arise and align IT systems to better fit constantly evolving processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Releasing Innovation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disparate silos of data across the enterprise &#8211; a known problem that has faced organizations for decades, but how do you fix it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Services-Oriented Architecture<\/strong> is a term that describes the design and use of information services to support business needs; a coherent enterprise-wide method of organizing how computer systems present information to other systems so the data they manage can be accessed more easily without compromising systems performance or security. For business people, the major benefit of organizing information through SOA is the prospect that data held in disparate silos across the enterprise can be re-used to create new applications that produce smarter processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To <em>consume<\/em> Web Services requires applications able to bring data together while fashioning new data structures, web portals and forms-based applications to view, edit and update data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Demand for these new applications increasingly comes from <em>communities of wor<\/em>k<em>ers<\/em> that, while small in number, are essential to process innovation and creativity \u2013 things that create competitive advantage in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century business world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conceived wisdom of building large lumbering enterprise applications for the <em>majority<\/em> at the expense of the few, no longer fits the reality of what these critical communities of information workers either need or expect.&nbsp; The high quality of software people now use in their homes and on their mobile phones has raised the bar of what business users expect.&nbsp; The <em>digital<\/em> <em>native <\/em>generation dismisses applications that require a manual or that ask them to live with inhospitable reporting tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To meet the demands of this new &#8216;consumerized&#8217; user community, the only viable solution is to produce applications at a faster pace and at lower risk; getting new applications to market faster, at lower cost.&nbsp; This demand has led to the innovations found in the Agile Codeless methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cMiddle managers spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs, and when they do find it, it is often wrong.\u201d<\/p><p>Source: AIMS survey on information management, 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delivering as Services Oriented Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Services-Oriented Architecture<\/strong> is a term that describes the design and use of information services to support business needs; a coherent enterprise-wide method of organizing how computer systems present information to other systems so the data they manage can be accessed more easily without compromising systems performance or security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For business people, the major benefit of organizing information through SOA is the prospect that data held in disparate silos across the enterprise can be re-used to create new applications that produce smarter processes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To <em>consume<\/em> Web Services requires applications able to bring data together while fashioning new data structures, web portals and forms-based applications to view, edit and update data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demand for these new applications increasingly comes from <em>communities of wor<\/em>k<em>ers<\/em> that, while small in number, are essential to process innovation and creativity \u2013 things that create competitive advantage in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century business world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conceived wisdom of building large lumbering enterprise applications for the <em>majority<\/em> at the expense of the few, no longer fits the reality of what these critical communities of information workers either need or expect.&nbsp; The high quality of software people now use in their homes and on their mobile phones has raised the bar of what business users expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>digital<\/em> <em>native <\/em>generation dismisses applications that require a manual or that ask them to live with inhospitable reporting tools.&nbsp;&nbsp; To meet the demands of this new consumerized user community, the only viable solution is to produce applications at a faster pace and at lower risk; getting new applications to market faster, at lower cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Agile Codeless Works<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Agile Codeless<\/strong> is a rapid method of designing and deploying situational applications for workgroups and teams. It\u2019s codeless because applications are authored using a platform that supplies pre-formed building blocks of technology, negating the need to see or use programming code.&nbsp; The absence of code and script in design workshops is important because it removes the barriers between IT experts and business professionals responsible for scoping applications; probably because they are stakeholders and users of the app to be authored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The ability to develop applications in near real-time (largely during workshops with users and stakeholders) not only makes applications \u2018better-fit\u2019 to the community of users and beneficiaries they\u2019re intended for, but reduces the time, cost and risk of applications developments \u2013 all but removing testing, tuning and re-working costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Agile Codeless methods and tools dramatically reduce the <strong>skills <\/strong>needed for authoring applications which means that one individual can reasonably discharge the entire lifecycle.&nbsp; The fact that applications are authored \u2018faster\u2019 does not remove the need for quality gates or pre-qualification of the use-case, user needs and benefactor outcome expectations.&nbsp; Developments are by necessity heavily pre-scoped using formalized analysis methods that include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI) based job worth analysis<\/li><li>Scorecarding<\/li><li>SRPRS applications scoping<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Encanvas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\">Encanvas<\/a> is an enterprise software company that specializes in helping businesses to create above and beyond customer experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Low Code to Codeless<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better than code-lite and low-code, we created the first no code (codeless) enterprise application platform to release creative minds from the torture of having to code or script applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/live-wireframing\"><strong>Live Wireframe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use Encanvas in your software development lifecycle to remove the barrier between IT and the business. Coding and scripting is the biggest reason why software development has been traditionally unpredictable, costly and unable to produce best-fit software results. Encanvas uniquely automates coding and scripting. Our live wireframing approach means that business analysts can create the apps you need in workshops, working across the desk with users and stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/appfabric\"><strong>AppFabric<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to creating apps to create a data culture and orchestrate your business model, there\u2019s no simpler way to instal and operate your enterprise software platform than AppFabric. Every application you create on AppFabric adds yet more data to your single-version-of-the-truth data insights. That\u2019s because, we\u2019ve designed AppFabric to create awesome enterprise apps that use a common data management substrate, so you can architect and implement an enterprise master data management plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/encanvas-cdp\"><strong>Customer Data Platform<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Encanvas supplies a private-cloud Customer Data Platform that equips businesses with the means to harvest their customer and commercial data from all sources, cleanse and organize it, and provide tooling to leverage its fullest value in a secure, regulated way. We provide a retrofittable solution that bridges across existing data repositories and cleanses and organizes data to present a useful data source. Then it goes on to make data available 24&#215;7 in a regulated way to authorized internal stakeholders and third parties to ensure adherence to data protection and FCA regulatory standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/secure-and-live\"><strong>Encanvas Secure&amp;Live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Encanvas Secure and Live (\u2018Secure&amp;Live\u2019) is a High-Productivity application Platform-as-a-Service. It\u2019s an enterprise applications software platform that equips businesses with the tools they need to design, deploy applications at low cost. It achieves this by removing coding and scripting tasks and the overheads of programming applications. Unlike its rivals, Encanvas Secure&amp;Live is completely codeless (not just Low-Code), so it removes the barriers between IT and the business. Today, you just need to know that it\u2019s the fastest (and safest) way to design, deploy and operate enterprise applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\">www.encanvas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Tomlin is a management consultant and strategist specializing in helping organizational leadership teams to grow by telling their story, designing and orchestrating their business models, and making conversation with customers and communities. He serves on the management team of Encanvas and works as a virtual CMO and board adviser for tech companies in Europe, America and Canada. He can be contacted via his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iantomlin\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> profile or follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ictomo?lang=en\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Now read:<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ustechsolutions.com\/december-a-month-of-reflection-and-connection\/\">December: A Month of Reflection and Connection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ustechsolutions.com\/2026-hiring-readiness-guide\/\">2026 Hiring Readiness Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ustechsolutions.com\/transform-your-hiring-game-with-cutting-edge-strategies-for-2026\/\">Transform Your Hiring Game with Cutting-Edge Strategies for 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ustechsolutions.com\/mastering-workforce-agility-why-advice-beats-tech-every-time\/\">Mastering Workforce Agility\u2013Why Advice Beats Tech Every Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ustechsolutions.com\/global-hiring-compliance-a-scaling-opportunity-or-legal-risk\/\">Global Hiring Compliance: A Scaling Opportunity or Legal Risk?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agile Codeless is a software development life-Cycle (SDLC) approach that embraces codeless authoring tools and methods to produce enterprise apps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Agile Codeless is transforming how businesses create the applications they need to service their business models.&nbsp; Find out why it's so different to what's come before.<\/span><\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Agile Codeless is a software development life-Cycle *(SDLC) approach that embraces codeless authoring methods and tools to produce enterprise apps.&nbsp; Developed by NDMC Consulting over a decade of enterprise software projects, it removes the barriers that exist between IT and the Business when authoring enterprise applications software..<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>The challenges of developing software applications<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A level of trial and error can be expected for any creative activity but the excessive risks of software authoring are born out in studies both in terms of slow time to market and burgeoning costs. The article \u2018<em>Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think<\/em>\u2019 by HBR (November 2011) followed a survey of <strong>1,471<\/strong> IT projects with an average spend of <strong>$167m <\/strong>and found:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>The average overrun was <strong>27%<\/strong><\/li><li>One in six projects studied experienced a cost overrun of over 200%.<\/li><li>Almost <strong>70% <\/strong>of black swan projects also overrun their schedules.<\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Though the pitfalls of software applications development are by now well documented the IT industry has been singularly unable to overcome them.&nbsp; But as globalization increases apace, business models change ever more rapidly and organizations seek to leverage \u2018Big Data\u2019, the need to reliably produce <em>better<\/em> applications right-first-time has never been more critical.&nbsp; This booklet examines the CAAD methodology for creating applications and the reasons behind its timely arrival.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>An unprecedented pace of change in business models is creating a need for more agile IT<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>For a hundred years management thinking has valued mechanization over creativity\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>..but after decades of automation, the core business processes of organizations are pretty slick \u2013 that is until <em>markets<\/em> <em>change<\/em> and business models need to realign. Then concepts of operational excellence evangelized by management consultants sound hollow.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As the very <em>structure<\/em> of markets change, smaller, more nimble companies benefitting from closer ties to their customers, and a clearer understanding of their value, are able to steal a march on vendors 100 times their size.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Even global brands aren\u2019t safe - new aggressors can emerge from a different industry altogether to take a big bite out of a market they see as fair game in an open, global market-place (such as retailers venturing into the car insurance market for example).<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cInstitutionally, the ability to be agile enough is the gut issue in leading an organization today.\u201d&nbsp; James McNearney - CEO, Boeing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Organizations that could once survive without reviewing business models more than once a decade are now forced to re-assess annually. The new mantra of business excellence is <em>agility<\/em> \u2013 to create an enterprise that can <em>adapt<\/em> <em>to always win in its most addressable markets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Powering enterprise agility<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Key to the drive for agility is the need to empower <em>middle managers<\/em>; people with the energy, skills and curiosity to question <em>why <\/em>processes work as they do and find new ways to distil customer value. Leaders are coming to realize that leadership <em>at all levels of the enterprise<\/em> is vital.&nbsp; This critical tier of \u2018corporals\u2019 demand systems and tools to understand and adapt their assets and resources to fit internal processes to the ever changing business landscape.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is driving demand for a new tier of applications that harvest data from existing sources to create new applications that response to new situations (\u2018situational applications\u2019) as they arise and align IT systems to better fit constantly evolving processes.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Releasing Innovation<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Disparate silos of data across the enterprise - a known problem that has faced organizations for decades, but how do you fix it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Services-Oriented Architecture<\/strong> is a term that describes the design and use of information services to support business needs; a coherent enterprise-wide method of organizing how computer systems present information to other systems so the data they manage can be accessed more easily without compromising systems performance or security. For business people, the major benefit of organizing information through SOA is the prospect that data held in disparate silos across the enterprise can be re-used to create new applications that produce smarter processes.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>To <em>consume<\/em> Web Services requires applications able to bring data together while fashioning new data structures, web portals and forms-based applications to view, edit and update data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Demand for these new applications increasingly comes from <em>communities of wor<\/em>k<em>ers<\/em> that, while small in number, are essential to process innovation and creativity \u2013 things that create competitive advantage in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century business world.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The conceived wisdom of building large lumbering enterprise applications for the <em>majority<\/em> at the expense of the few, no longer fits the reality of what these critical communities of information workers either need or expect.&nbsp; The high quality of software people now use in their homes and on their mobile phones has raised the bar of what business users expect.&nbsp; The <em>digital<\/em> <em>native <\/em>generation dismisses applications that require a manual or that ask them to live with inhospitable reporting tools.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To meet the demands of this new 'consumerized' user community, the only viable solution is to produce applications at a faster pace and at lower risk; getting new applications to market faster, at lower cost.&nbsp; This demand has led to the innovations found in the Agile Codeless methodology.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cMiddle managers spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs, and when they do find it, it is often wrong.\u201d<\/p><p>Source: AIMS survey on information management, 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Delivering as Services Oriented Architecture<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Services-Oriented Architecture<\/strong> is a term that describes the design and use of information services to support business needs; a coherent enterprise-wide method of organizing how computer systems present information to other systems so the data they manage can be accessed more easily without compromising systems performance or security.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>For business people, the major benefit of organizing information through SOA is the prospect that data held in disparate silos across the enterprise can be re-used to create new applications that produce smarter processes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To <em>consume<\/em> Web Services requires applications able to bring data together while fashioning new data structures, web portals and forms-based applications to view, edit and update data.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Demand for these new applications increasingly comes from <em>communities of wor<\/em>k<em>ers<\/em> that, while small in number, are essential to process innovation and creativity \u2013 things that create competitive advantage in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century business world.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The conceived wisdom of building large lumbering enterprise applications for the <em>majority<\/em> at the expense of the few, no longer fits the reality of what these critical communities of information workers either need or expect.&nbsp; The high quality of software people now use in their homes and on their mobile phones has raised the bar of what business users expect.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The <em>digital<\/em> <em>native <\/em>generation dismisses applications that require a manual or that ask them to live with inhospitable reporting tools.&nbsp;&nbsp; To meet the demands of this new consumerized user community, the only viable solution is to produce applications at a faster pace and at lower risk; getting new applications to market faster, at lower cost.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>How Agile Codeless Works<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Agile Codeless<\/strong> is a rapid method of designing and deploying situational applications for workgroups and teams. It\u2019s codeless because applications are authored using a platform that supplies pre-formed building blocks of technology, negating the need to see or use programming code.&nbsp; The absence of code and script in design workshops is important because it removes the barriers between IT experts and business professionals responsible for scoping applications; probably because they are stakeholders and users of the app to be authored.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>The ability to develop applications in near real-time (largely during workshops with users and stakeholders) not only makes applications \u2018better-fit\u2019 to the community of users and beneficiaries they\u2019re intended for, but reduces the time, cost and risk of applications developments \u2013 all but removing testing, tuning and re-working costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Agile Codeless methods and tools dramatically reduce the <strong>skills <\/strong>needed for authoring applications which means that one individual can reasonably discharge the entire lifecycle.&nbsp; The fact that applications are authored \u2018faster\u2019 does not remove the need for quality gates or pre-qualification of the use-case, user needs and benefactor outcome expectations.&nbsp; Developments are by necessity heavily pre-scoped using formalized analysis methods that include:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI) based job worth analysis<\/li><li>Scorecarding<\/li><li>SRPRS applications scoping<\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>About Encanvas<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\">Encanvas<\/a> is an enterprise software company that specializes in helping businesses to create above and beyond customer experiences.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>From Low Code to Codeless<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Better than code-lite and low-code, we created the first no code (codeless) enterprise application platform to release creative minds from the torture of having to code or script applications.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/live-wireframing\"><strong>Live Wireframe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Use Encanvas in your software development lifecycle to remove the barrier between IT and the business. Coding and scripting is the biggest reason why software development has been traditionally unpredictable, costly and unable to produce best-fit software results. Encanvas uniquely automates coding and scripting. Our live wireframing approach means that business analysts can create the apps you need in workshops, working across the desk with users and stakeholders.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/appfabric\"><strong>AppFabric<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When it comes to creating apps to create a data culture and orchestrate your business model, there\u2019s no simpler way to instal and operate your enterprise software platform than AppFabric. Every application you create on AppFabric adds yet more data to your single-version-of-the-truth data insights. That\u2019s because, we\u2019ve designed AppFabric to create awesome enterprise apps that use a common data management substrate, so you can architect and implement an enterprise master data management plan.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/encanvas-cdp\"><strong>Customer Data Platform<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Encanvas supplies a private-cloud Customer Data Platform that equips businesses with the means to harvest their customer and commercial data from all sources, cleanse and organize it, and provide tooling to leverage its fullest value in a secure, regulated way. We provide a retrofittable solution that bridges across existing data repositories and cleanses and organizes data to present a useful data source. Then it goes on to make data available 24x7 in a regulated way to authorized internal stakeholders and third parties to ensure adherence to data protection and FCA regulatory standards.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\/secure-and-live\"><strong>Encanvas Secure&amp;Live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Encanvas Secure and Live (\u2018Secure&amp;Live\u2019) is a High-Productivity application Platform-as-a-Service. It\u2019s an enterprise applications software platform that equips businesses with the tools they need to design, deploy applications at low cost. It achieves this by removing coding and scripting tasks and the overheads of programming applications. Unlike its rivals, Encanvas Secure&amp;Live is completely codeless (not just Low-Code), so it removes the barriers between IT and the business. Today, you just need to know that it\u2019s the fastest (and safest) way to design, deploy and operate enterprise applications.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Learn more by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encanvas.com\">www.encanvas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>The Author<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ian Tomlin is a management consultant and strategist specializing in helping organizational leadership teams to grow by telling their story, designing and orchestrating their business models, and making conversation with customers and communities. He serves on the management team of Encanvas and works as a virtual CMO and board adviser for tech companies in Europe, America and Canada. 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