7 mistakes to avoid with low-code deployments

Enterprises are deploying more low-code tools and processes, as they look to increase the efficiency of software development and to support digital business efforts. A key to success with the technology is learning to avoid common mistakes.

Research firm Gartner has forecast that the worldwide low-code development market will total $13.8 billion in 2021, an increase of 23% from 2020. The surge in remote development during the pandemic has continued to boost low-code adoption, it says.

Low-code application development is not new, the firm points out, but a confluence of “digital disruptions, hyperautomation, and the rise of composable business” has led to an influx of tools and rising demand. Low-code as a general social and technological movement is expected to continue growing significantly, Gartner predicts.

The market includes products such as low-code application platforms, intelligent business process management suites, robotic process automation, and citizen automation and development platforms.

Digital business acceleration is putting pressure on IT leaders to dramatically increase application delivery speed, and low-code tools address this. The rise in demand for custom software programs in support of digital transformation has sparked the emergence of citizen developers outside of the IT department, which in turn has influenced the rise in low-code tools, Gartner says.

The deployment of low-code products and processes can be fraught with errors though, and organizations need to be aware of these so they can avoid them or minimize the impact on development operations.