How to approach the SDLC
stages successfully

The time and risks associated with innovation are why many companies refrain from digital innovation as a whole. When digital innovation is not approached with a clear roadmap and carefully established guidelines in mind, it can quickly result in wasted resources and a demotivated team. This is where a low-code platform can help: by providing visual programming tools where prototypes can be quickly established, allowing a solution to be validated thoroughly before moving on to the development phase. By safeguarding the SDLC best practices with low code, new solutions have a much higher chance of delivering on meeting end-user requirements.

SDLC Stages

SDLC innovation with citizen development

The Quickly platform's no-code aspect democratizes software development, regardless of employees’ familiarity with writing code. LCNC platforms provide the right tooling for non-developers to develop their own custom solutions that improve their workflows and business processes. When software development is democratized through citizen development, everyone has equal access to innovation. While citizen developers do not need to participate in the development phase of the SDLC, they are able to provide crucial support during the ideation phase by submitting ideas from their day-to-day perspective. Likewise, they are key to passing the validation phase successfully by providing their requirements from an end-user point of view. When deployed solutions need to be maintained, an LCNC platform offers them the tools to configure and update solutions to suit their business needs.

Citizen developers to the rescue
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Frequently Asked Questions optimizing the SDLC with low-code

Low-code offers a faster way of developing new online solutions through a visual IDE, using drag-and-drop components to create UI, data models, and action steps to create an application rather than hand-coding applications from scratch.

It depends on how many resources you have available and whether your team has any previous experience with innovation. If you want an application delivered quickly, we offer the Quickly 4-week guarantee.

It’s possible to move straight to the development stage. However, omitting the ideation and validation phases severely diminishes the chances of creating a successful application.

Engaged and motivated employees are essential to spark change. Establishing an innovation committee or rewarding innovative idea submissions are good first steps toward increasing employee engagement in the overall process. A platform where ideas can be submitted and reviewed gives the organization oversight of which ideas to move forward with.

Check out the webinar hosted in conjunction with our Customer Success Manager and Solutions Architect about ideation and validation here.