4. OutSystems learning curve
OutSystems is designed to be easy for individuals with diverse backgrounds to learn.
Developers can quickly become productive, often in just one week, because the OutSystems platform uses familiar software development constructs. If developers have experience with other technologies, the transition is seamless. OutSystems uses basic programming acumen and an understanding of relational database concepts, so it is accessible to individuals right out of the box.
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OutSystems abstracts the complexities of underlying code, languages, and libraries, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SQL, C#, Swift, and more.
Individuals who do not have development skills become productive in as little as a month. Here's an example of a project led by members of an HR team who learned OutSystems.
Seasoned developers will quickly see productivity gains as they learn to build platform extensions and visually reusable components that encapsulate the products of their skills in the underlying technologies.
Here are the reasons to learn OutSystems.
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More time to focus on what matters
For seasoned developers, OutSystems becomes another skill they can master and use to achieve business goals. The mindset of a developer who is using OutSystems will always be to get to the bottom line, using creativity and intelligence to solve the business problem. This is because they do not have to concern themselves with database scripts, deployment plans, dependency analysis, maintenance, and all the things that distract from truly developing an app.
Fast ramp-up and easy team rotation
With OutSystems, code is a visual model! In that sense, abstraction is much higher, and "coding" standards (modeling standards) are used by all developers. Developers can change the application safely without concerning themselves with where it might break. Developers can be ramped up quickly and rotating team members between projects, or in different areas of a project, becomes simpler.
An OutSystems customer, who uses a team of 60 developers for large projects, is currently able to train new OutSystems developers and in two weeks, they are productive members of the project team.. Rotating people between projects takes only a few days.