{"id":217,"date":"2022-02-23T02:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-06-08T23:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T23:26:49","slug":"what-if-all-workers-wrote-software-not-just-the-geek-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/2022\/02\/23\/what-if-all-workers-wrote-software-not-just-the-geek-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"What if all workers wrote software, not just the geek elite?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018 a field technician working for Telstra, an Australian telecoms firm, built an app that unified 70 messaging systems for reporting phone-line problems. The technician did this despite having no coding experience. The interface may look cluttered: the landing page jams in 150 buttons and a local-news ticker\u2014the app equivalent of an airplane cockpit, quips Charles Lamanna of Microsoft, who oversees the software titan\u2019s Power Apps platform that made it possible. But it has been a hit. Some 1,300 other Telstra technicians employ it, saving the firm an annual $12m\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>READ AT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2022\/01\/29\/what-if-all-workers-wrote-software-not-just-the-geek-elite\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2022\/01\/29\/what-if-all-workers-wrote-software-not-just-the-geek-elite<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation In 2018 a field technician working for Telstra, an Australian telecoms firm, built an app that<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palogrande.com\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}