Low-Code Association e.V. publishes the Low-Code Manifesto

The Low-Code Association e.V., founded in 2022, publishes the Low-Code Manifesto. It shows which changes are taking place in the IT business and in everyday work due to Low-code and No-code and which are still to be expected.

At the beginning of 2023, the eight German founding companies of the Low-Code Association (Scopeland Technology, Necara, DResearch Digital Media Systems, Allisa, DMK E-Business, JobRouter, Simplifier and SQL Projekt) developed 14 theses together with the Low-Code expert Jan Gottschick from Fraunhofer FOKUS. The aim of the manifesto is to sharpen the public’s understanding of Low-Code. At the beginning of 2023, the eight German founding companies of the Low-Code Association (Scopeland Technology, Necara, DResearch Digital Media Systems, Allisa, DMK E-Business, JobRouter, Simplifier and SQL Projekt) developed 14 theses together with the low-code expert Jan Gottschick from Fraunhofer FOKUS. The aim of the manifesto is to sharpen the public’s understanding of low-code. The everyday experiences of visionary company founders, executives, business managers, IT service providers and scientists flowed into the Manifesto in a general, manufacturer-independent and technology-neutral way.

Rethinking software development

The manifesto opens up the perspective of a completely different way of thinking about software development: simpler, more flexible, and more light-footed. It takes up core technical aspects, objectives, but also the development of a new job profile of the Low-Code developer. An increase in efficiency and flexibility in implementation, the resulting rise in software quality, a comparatively fast build-up of high-performance Low-Code developer teams are convincing arguments for Low-Code. The advantages of Low-Code raise the question of what will not be Low-Code in the future.

Karsten Noack, CEO of the Low-Code Association and Managing Director of Scopeland Technology, sees the manifesto as a big step for the movement: »With the manifesto we have captured the diversity and also the impact on the IT world. We strongly believe that compsanies will need a Low-Code strategy in the future. Not only one Low-Code platform will be used, but different ones for different tasks.« In the end, it becomes clear: Low-Code will change organisations, as well as the work with and on software, and is already doing so.

Reasons for a Manifesto

The members of the Low-Code Association are united by their interest of showing the public what is already possible today and where the future potential of Low-Code development lies. They all have one thing in common: software development without programming, or more precisely, almost without programming. The individual providers are approaching this goal from partly different directions and with different characteristics of the individual products. After all, it is an enormous technical and methodological challenge, without the path being clearly mapped out.