Practitioners’ Perceptions on the Adoption of Low Code Development Platforms

Abstract

Organizations are under increasing pressure to develop applications within budget and time at high quality. Therefore, multiple organizations adopt Low Code Development Platforms (LCDP) to develop applications faster and cheaper compared to traditional application development. However, current research on LCDP adoption lacks empirical grounding as well as a deeper understanding of the importance of adoption drivers and inhibitors. We conducted semi-structured interviews and a Delphi study with seventeen experts to address these gaps. As a result, we identified twelve drivers and nineteen inhibitors for adopting LCDPs. We show that the experts have a consensus on the most and the least important drivers and inhibitors for LCDP adoption. Yet, the ranking of the drivers and inhibitors between the most and least important is highly context dependent. For some drivers and inhibitors, the experts' ranking is similar to academic literature, whereas, for others, it differs. In conclusion, the study at hand empirically validates drivers and inhibitors for LCDP adoption, adds six new drivers and six new inhibitors to the body of knowledge, and analyses the importance of these factors.

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“…Moreover, knowledge integration and innovation capability in organizations can also be supported using LCNC [20]. The dynamic nature of fulfilling business requirements in a shorter time is made possible by LCNC development [21][22][23], which has low cost [10] and requires low maintenance effort [24]. Prinz et al applied the socio-technical system (STS) to analyze the current research landscape in low-cost development platforms (LCDP).…”

A Multiple Mini Case Study on the Adoption of Low Code Development Platforms in Work Systems

“…For LCD, so-called LCDPs are used to foster application development through visual, drag-and-drop techniques. Therefore, LCDPs are easy to start with for developers with and without prior knowledge [11], [18], [19]. LCDPs operate as a PaaS cloud delivery model [12]- [14] and enable citizen developers to quickly develop various applications [18].…”

“…However, a better understanding of LCDP adoption can help to explain the rapid adoption growth and to address factors hindering it. Therefore, we researched LCDP adoption in work systems and identified 12 drivers and 19 inhibitors as factors for LCDP adoption in [11]. We conducted a Delphi study, analysed the drivers' and inhibitors' importance, and found that experts agreed on the most and least important drivers and inhibitors for adoption [11].…”

“…Therefore, we researched LCDP adoption in work systems and identified 12 drivers and 19 inhibitors as factors for LCDP adoption in [11]. We conducted a Delphi study, analysed the drivers' and inhibitors' importance, and found that experts agreed on the most and least important drivers and inhibitors for adoption [11]. However, for the factors between the most and least important, the experts' ranking was contextdependent [11].…”

“…We conducted a Delphi study, analysed the drivers' and inhibitors' importance, and found that experts agreed on the most and least important drivers and inhibitors for adoption [11]. However, for the factors between the most and least important, the experts' ranking was contextdependent [11]. Our Delphi study only researched single factors and neglected the combinatorial effects between different factors.…”