Co-development: Working together to turn your ideas into solutions

Any company specializing in IT services can meet the needs of its customers in a variety of ways. These may include taking on software development projects, or allocating talent (staff augmentation) to increase the client’s internal capacity, on a short- or long-term basis.

At Nexus, we stand out for our hybrid and collaborative approach, that offers our clients the best of both worlds: taking advantage of experts to develop a software solution, while at the same time being part of the project team.

This is what we call co-development.

Is it relevant for you?

Faced with a full project backlog and an overworked in-house team, the companies we work with are often faced with the same dilemma: the fear of losing strategic knowledge by outsourcing a project, or the risk of seeing it stretched out because of an overworked in-house team and wich sometines lack experience.

If this sounds like you, co-development could be the right approach for you.

In co-dev mode, Nexus makes it possible to achieve a customer’s technological ambitions not only contributing with its development expertise, but also by sharing and applying its methodological know-how. This means we take on a share of the responsibility and leadership for the project’s delivery, which would not be the case in a staff-aug mode.
Samuel Lapointe, Corporate VP

The benefits

Co-dev is an approach that stands out from traditional methods thanks to its significant advantages:

Risk sharing: By working in a co-dev method, Nexus is responsible and accountable for the work processes and the success of the project. Financial and technical risks are therefore shared.
Access to new skills and technologies: Nexus brings cutting-edge skills and technologies directly into the customer’s teams. In addition to driving the project forward, teams have the chance to learn from our coaching.
Reduced time-to-production: Obviously, co-development reduces development time. This means a much faster time-to-production, maximizing return on investment.
Enhanced innovation and creativity: Mixing perspectives and expertise is stimulating! Diverse talents + diverse ideas = Innovation.
Internal knowledge retention: Working directly with the customer’s internal teams ensures that strategic knowledge remains within the company.

The way we address challenges

As you know, every software development project has its challenges. You’d think this would be amplified by having two companies working together on the same project, but at Nexus, partnerships are our forte!

Our approach relies on building a solid team dynamic, where members share a vision and culture that helps avoid clashes.
Our proven, standardized collaboration method ensures healthy coordination and communication within the project team. Clear and constant communication between project stakeholders ensures team health, both in terms of operational delivery and cohesion.

Tangible success stories

In the last few months, our team has had the chance to work on several co-development projects, which have confirmed the success of our approach and the potential it holds for other companies:

Fenplast: we developed a custom solution in collaboration with the client. the co-dev approach helped the customer to improve the management of APIs and production rollouts, while retaining control of their complex business logic. At Nexus, we leveraged our UI/UX expertise to ensure the solutions were user-friendly, as well as our infrastructure expertise, which helped streamline deployments. Read the full usecase here!

Medial SST: Our partnership with this client began with a co-dev implementation approach, which gave the Nexus team a rapid understanding of the business context, and allowed the Medial team to increase deliveries to users.

Fix Network: As part of this ongoing development project, the co-development team formed by Nexus and Fix Network is delivering a large-scale project that is critical to the organization’s operations, while training the customer’s internal team in optimal development practices.

An impact that goes beyond the project

The customers we have worked with on co-development projects agree that it’s a winning approach, both in terms of project completion and technological maturity.

In fact, co-development makes it easier and quicker to complete projects on a technology roadmap, while increasing the skills of in-house teams, with access to cutting-edge expertise. On top of reducing costs and delivery risks, this approach strengthens their ability to innovate, respond rapidly to market needs and remain competitive.