building ethics & empathy into innovation

Low-Code for Citizen Developers

equipping future builders & citizen developers to create and connect applications via low-code platforms

new technology-enabled curriculum developed by Matthew John Brady, Entrepreneur & Educator offered to students currently enrolled at the University of Colorado – Leeds School of Business

Business Stability & Agility

  • Strategic Imperatives

    Understand the drivers of organizational priority-setting related to digital transformation and enablement

  • Front-Office Growth

    Trace revenue and retention goals to specific use cases, and go from idea to implementation faster than ever before

  • Back-Office Efficiency

    Survey and identify the processes that would benefit most subtantially from modernized, usable applications

  • Cloud Computing & SaaS

  • Benefits & Costs

    Evaluating "COTS" and custom software, ROI models

  • Rewards & Risks

    Measuring intangibles and mitigating issues

  • Vendor Selection

    Choosing the right tools for the job

  • Application Orchestration

  • History of Innovation

    Progression of "no software" to "clicks not code"

  • Kevlar Quilt TM

    Knitting together the best-in-class solutions

  • Architecture

    Identity, Security, Data Model, Process Roles

  • Agile Project Sprints

  • Planning the Work

    Define the scope and resource capacity

  • Working the Plan

    Execute in an interactive manner

  • Multiple Practicums

    Grow the solution via hands-on experience

  • Skill Benchmarking

  • Platform Certification

    Equip yourself to earn endorsements for the most prominent low-code platforms used in industry today

  • Industry Opportunities

    Map out Internship, Full-Time, and Entrepreneurial paths

  • Official student feedback · BAIM 3210

    Teaching, evaluated in context

    Students deserve a complete picture of how a course is taught and experienced. The University of Colorado Boulder administers anonymous Faculty Course Questionnaires to enrolled students at the end of each term and publishes the numeric results.

    4.56 / 5.00
    Matthew Brady’s courses Fall 2021–Spring 2026
    4.34 / 5.00
    Leeds benchmark Comparable course results
    4.38 / 5.00
    CU Boulder benchmark Comparable course results
    93 percent
    Response rate Matthew’s Spring 2026 courses

    In Spring 2026, Matthew’s courses averaged 4.64 / 5.00 across CU Boulder’s public FCQ measures, compared with 4.33 for Leeds and 4.40 across CU Boulder. Those measures address specific parts of the student experience, including real-world relevance, intellectual challenge, grading clarity, helpful feedback, instructor availability, respect for diverse perspectives, and effective use of technology.

    Explore the official BAIM 3210 results

    Use CU Boulder’s live dashboard to explore BAIM 3210 results by semester, instructor, and comparison group. These results reflect hundreds of submitted student responses across course offerings, providing a substantially broader and more meaningful evidence base than the small, voluntary sample published on Rate My Professors. The dashboard is maintained and published by the university.

    If the dashboard does not appear, open the BAIM 3210 FCQ dashboard

    Recognition for teaching, innovation, and mentorship

    David B. Balkin and Rosalind & Chester Barnow Endowed Innovative Teaching Award

    Recognizing work that helps students use AI, low-code development, and automation to address consequential human and organizational challenges.

    Leeds AI Teaching Excellence Challenge Grants

    Two-time recipient supporting the development of AI-enabled learning experiences and autonomous agents that create value for builders and stakeholders.

    Gillespie Award

    Recognizing the promotion of entrepreneurship and student mentorship in and beyond the classroom.

    Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Faculty Ambassador

    Advancing principled decision-making, integrity, accountability, and transparency in business education.

    The recognition matters, but the purpose is more important: equip students to apply technology thoughtfully, create real value, and lead with both technical confidence and human judgment.

    Methodology: Current CU Boulder FCQs measure 16 specific instructional practices. The summary figures above describe Matthew Brady’s reported course results across terms; use the live dashboard for BAIM 3210-specific results. FCQ measures should not be treated as equivalent to a single overall rating on a third-party website. Student comments are not included in CU Boulder’s public reports.

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    Course Synopsis

    The days of recruiting, training, retaining, and growing an in-house development team are waning. As the war for talent rages on, organizations need to move faster, invest more diligently, and protect operational priorities. As such, a new era of technology has emerged, whereby “citizen developers” are able to conceive of, rapidly build, and scale apps, without needing to go through traditional IT timelines and gates.

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    This course was developed around the core tenants and tools of “LCDI” and "AppGen". It provides students with the strategic context of human-centered technology, the guiding principles of design thinking, and the practical skills of building and evolving applications using the leading PaaS & iPaaS tools. This curriculum will empower students as solution builders and digital innovators. By fostering creativity and expanding the scope and scale of jobs to be done, students will learn to create and capture business value by “enabling ideas”.

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