How No-Code Empowers Small Development Teams

Small development teams are on the rise—here’s how Unqork can help small teams reach their fullest potential.

When it comes to application development, you might think having a bigger team is better—more people means more productivity, right? Unfortunately, it can be challenging to complete a project with larger teams. With so many different opinions, processes, and levels of communication, big teams can sometimes slow down development.

That’s why more and more enterprises are downsizing their development teams. Smaller, more intimate teams promote communication and increase accountability, while also ensuring everyone gets the support they need. In this article, we’ll dive into why small development teams are so important as well as how no-code can push small teams towards success.

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The case for small teams

You’ve probably heard this expression: “Work smarter, not harder.” But what about “work smaller, not larger?” In recent years, enterprises across industries have been investigating the advantages of working in smaller teams. Historically, big discoveries and innovations have come from many individuals working together to achieve a single goal. You often find large, complex teams in the sciences—for example, the paper reporting on the Nobel Prize-winning LIGO experiment boasted a list of over 1,000 researchers.

While there are some advantages to having all hands on deck—there are many different kinds of expertise, for instance, so you increase your likelihood of discovering something new—large teams can sometimes do more harm than good.

• The Ringelmann Effect or “social loafing:” This classic psychological study found that individuals become less productive as group size increases because they believe someone else will pick up the slack. Unfortunately, one person often does end up doing everything and they get overworked.

• Relational loss: In large groups, many individuals feel they don’t get the support they need.

• Too many opinions: Having too many differing viewpoints on a single project can slow down development teams, compromise the clarity of your vision, and make it hard to effectively share and incorporate feedback

When you shrink the size of your development team, you dramatically increase the ability to communicate effectively and work together. Each player makes an impact in a smaller team, and people are more motivated to stay engaged when they know they’re not just a cog in the machine. Also, it’s easier to express your needs and align on project goals when you know your voice will be heard.

Small teams are also more flexible than larger ones. When you don’t need approval from thirty different people, it’s far easier to adjust and make changes on the fly. This promotes agility and helps you get products to market much faster.

3 ways no-code helps small teams work effectively

If you’re in enterprise tech or another major industry, no-code development is key to helping smaller engineering and tech teams reach their full potential and boost productivity. Here’s how:

1. Simplify development

No-code’s reusable components, drag-and-drop workflows, and visual interfaces simplify application development so that anyone, regardless of formal tech experience, can bring their business ideas to life. This means well-rounded interdisciplinary teams are no longer exclusive to large teams—you can involve all skill sets without worrying about who will be responsible for negotiating the technology.

No-code also helps bridge the gap between business and tech teams. By bringing people from the business side of your enterprise into your small team, you can collaborate more efficiently and eliminate time-consuming back-and-forths over business requirements.

2. Increase agility

No-code development is fast, simple, and can be done by anyone on your team—no more waiting for coders to get a free moment and recode your entire application. Whenever you get new feedback from someone on your small team, you can take care of it on your own as soon as possible! This helps you get to market faster, demonstrate value sooner, and future-proof the applications in your enterprise. 

3. Maximize time and effort

When you’re working with small teams, take care not to overload them. Everyone takes on a little more responsibility in a small team, but that doesn’t mean you should be responsible for tackling everything. Application security is a great example. In an enterprise-grade application development platform like Unqork, we take care of all the backend security for you like patching and penetration testing. 

With automation powered by AI and machine learning, Unqork takes on the heavy lifting so you can focus on important operations. Instead of devoting your time to traditional development tasks like building workflows and triggering responses, Unqork automates this repetitive work for you. This prevents your small team from worrying about the little things, so they can focus on innovation instead. 

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No-code development lets you work small & think big

If having large tech teams makes the most sense for your organization, our powerful platform makes it easier to guide bigger projects from ideation to launch without going over time or over budget. If small teams are more your speed, no-code can help them do more in less time.

If having large tech teams makes the most sense for your organization, our powerful platform makes it easier to guide bigger projects from ideation to launch without going over time or over budget. If small teams are more your speed, no-code can help them do more in less time.

At Unqork, we want to give you the power to create sophisticated, enterprise-grade applications—no matter how you choose to go about building them. If having large tech teams makes the most sense for your organization, our powerful platform makes it easier to guide bigger projects from ideation to launch without going over time or over budget. If small teams are more your speed, no-code can help them do more in less time. Big or small, let Unqork empower your team to develop high-quality enterprise applications that will push your business further, faster than ever before.

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