What is a collaborative development environment?

A collaborative development environment (CDE) is a platform or workspace that supports teamwork across various stages of the software lifecycle, enabling cross-functional teams to work more efficiently.

How does Mendix facilitate collaboration?

Mendix offers tools such as Portfolio Management, Agile support, Feedback Management, and Version Control to enhance collaboration between business and IT teams, enabling them to co-create applications effectively.

Why is collaboration important in low-code development?

Collaboration is essential in low-code development as it ensures alignment between business and IT, improves communication, reduces rework, and accelerates the development process.

What tools does Mendix provide for collaboration?

Mendix provides tools such as Feedback Management, Version Control, Application Insights, and Agile support to streamline communication and ensure seamless teamwork across development teams.

What are the benefits of collaborative development with Mendix?

Mendix improves team interactions, accelerates time-to-market, fosters innovation, and ensures end-user involvement throughout the application development lifecycle.

Collaborative Development with Mendix

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Break down collaboration barriers

Enterprise development teams need to build and deploy more applications faster. The key to making that possible is sustainable, functional collaboration between business and IT. But that’s often easier said than done. Enterprises working with siloed development processes face significant barriers to successful application development.

Developer shortage

There aren’t enough professional developers to meet demand. And the global shortage is expected to reach 4 million in 2025.
Business-IT friction

When IT lives in a backlog, business teams seek software alternatives that can lead to shadow IT and security and governance risks.
Unexpected costs

Communication inefficiencies are pricey. In the U.S., poor software quality cost businesses at least $2.41 trillion in 2022.

Power innovation with collaborative low-code development

With the collaborative tools and processes found in low-code development platforms, enterprise teams are better equipped to:

Improve team interactions by involving stakeholders throughout every stage of the application development lifecycle.
Accelerate time to market by reducing rework, improving communication, and increasing feedback cycles.
Make space for innovation by eliminating drains on resources and encouraging teams to think of and act on new ideas.
Increase adoption by involving end users at every stage. Listen to and incorporate their feedback at smaller intervals.

Mendix is built for collaborative development

Effective collaboration throughout the development lifecycle is the best way to build high-quality software at the pace the modern enterprise requires. Mendix makes it possible for cross-functional teams to speak the same language and follow a single source of truth by providing the tools enterprises need to support collaboration.

The Mendix Collaboration Suite

Our built-in digital collaboration tools help cross-functional teams plan, manage, and co-create applications that meet the demands of the business.

Portfolio Management

Identify and manage the scope, effort, and value assessment of digital projects with our built-in Portfolio Management tool.
Learn more about management
Agile Working

Adapt, innovate, and deliver high-quality apps. Our Agile tools support you throughout the entire application lifecycle.
Read more on Agile Working
Application Insights

Capture new ideas to improve solutions via polls and improve the quality of your apps through active and passive user feedback.
See how feedback works
Version Control

Use a centralized version control repository to automatically reconcile multiple team members’ work in a single, unified revision.
Discover version control

How Mendix supports collaborative development

Make deploying first-time-right applications a standard practice. We’ve re-engineered how organizations create applications by streamlining communication between stakeholders.

Choose your tools

With Epics and Feedback Management teams can decide which Mendix tools will best support collaboration, and save on additional technology licenses.
Go beyond application development

Mendix facilitates collaboration throughout the maintenance and upgrade phases to ensure your applications stay relevant and useful, and your team has a sustainable way of working.
Continuously improve

Collaborate with end users by translating their feedback into new user stories. Integrate new tasks and change requests as needed, and measure engagement to optimize each application.

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