An Innovative Tool to Support Software Development Teams

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Quebec City, March 17, 2022. - Nexapp, the Quebec-based company helping to improve the future of software engineering, launches Axify. This innovative, data-driven tool aims to help development teams optimize their delivery processes.

Software development is complex, with many variables constantly changing, from processes and engineering to team management. The challenge is to make the right decisions in an evolving context, which can make all the difference in terms of speed to market and value creation.

Axify provides development teams with tools that improve alignment and development cycles, resulting in continuous delivery of value, increased efficiency, and reduced wasted time and bottlenecks. In fact, according to the State of DevOps 2021 study, elite teams deliver 6,570 times faster than the lowest-performing teams, and deploy 973 times more often.

Measuring team morale against a backdrop of talent shortages

The pandemic has greatly accelerated the need for talent in the field of information and communication technologies. In Quebec alone, more than 12,000 jobs are still to be filled in this field. This situation has consequences for business productivity, due to the scarcity and turnover of the workforce. Since we'll be facing this challenge for many years to come, it's extremely important to improve the efficiency of current teams.

Axify is the only platform that correlates team morale with other software delivery performance metrics. In particular, the tool measures an employee's alignment, sense of security, motivation, stress levels and inclusion.

"Several studies show that team collaboration improves productivity in software development," points out Jonathan Lessard, President of Nexapp. "By taking team morale into account in its data, Axify can help strengthen motivation and a sense of belonging among team members, and contribute to talent retention while preventing burnout and silo work, important vectors of operational excellence," he continues.

Since its creation, Axify has enabled a number of local companies to improve their practices. Among other things, the platform has enabled Scrum Masters to save an hour a day, in addition to avoiding data entry errors; teams to better measure the status of their projects and project themselves with greater confidence in defining delivery dates; improved collaboration between team members to achieve the sprint objective; and better structured ceremonies to extract more value from them.

Coping with rapid growth

Over the years, Nexapp has developed its know-how in software engineering, while distinguishing itself through a strong culture and talent development. Its new Axify platform was born of the company's desire to deploy this know-how on a large scale, firstly to cope with its own growth, and secondly to make it accessible to other organizations working in the field.

Drawing on existing theories and metrics, including those from DORA and the State of DevOps 2021 report, Axify shortens development cycles, delivering more value to customers. To do this, the platform gathers all the data to drive operational excellence at multiple levels, including technical quality, process efficiency and team morale.

"Our team has done a lot of research to optimize our processes and target the elements that really make the difference when it comes to measuring performance. Axify is the fruit of this work, and we want to share it to help improve the future of software engineering," says Jonathan Lessard.

An initial investment of $2 million

Innovative and recognized for the quality of its technological projects, Nexapp can count on the support of major financial partners such as Investissement Québec, the BDC, the City of Québec, the Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation and Canada NRC/NRC. By the end of the year, more than $2 million will have been invested in the development and commercialization of the tool.

About Nexapp

Nexapp was founded in 2014 by three software developers with a mission to raise the bar for quality in technology projects. It's by adding human kindness, process optimization and software engineering best practices that Nexapp designs sustainable solutions and delivers products with great value. Today, with a team of over seventy talents, Nexapp aims to improve the future of software development by providing tools to development teams. To this end, the team has developed Axify.

About Axify

Axify's mission is to strengthen the collaboration of software development teams for better alignment and delivery, with highlights on people, processes and software quality.

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