At my very first job in data, I was an analyst on a finance team. I was working with a senior engineer who had built out several new automated processes and was managing a data warehouse and several other applications. We were supporting 4-5 financial analysts who were relying on our data to report to the CIO.
We call Shadow IT which encompasses all IT/ data related stuff done by business users without the help of IT as Citizen Dev.
OMG, I am shadow IT. 😲 👍🏼
This makes total sense. People are building more and more things with any data they can get ahold of or access.