Software Development Life Cycle

Mendix is the only low-code app development platform that provides a comprehensive and integrated set of tools and services for managing the entire software development life cycle (SDLC).

From ideation and development through deployment and maintenance, Mendix offers portfolio management, Agile planning, intuitive and AI-assisted development, and robust version control right out of the box.

Mendix leads the way in enterprise application development by facilitating data integration across systems, automating and optimizing processes, and simplifying cloud deployment and management.

How does Mendix improve speed and quality with collaborative low-code development?

We don’t just accelerate app development; we revolutionize it. While other low-code platforms may speed up app building, we differentiate ourselves by placing business-IT collaboration at our core.

We empower our customers to solve the right problems in the most efficient ways possible. Effective collaboration isn’t just a feature; it’s the essence of our success and the driving force behind every remarkable app we enable.

Mendix also supports both Agile and Fusion Teams.

How does Mendix connect business stakeholders with the development activities?

Mendix fosters collaboration by empowering multidisciplinary teams to build digital solutions aligned with company strategy. With Mendix, professionals from various fields can communicate and co-create throughout the innovation journey, ensuring minimal rework and accelerated execution.

Mendix facilitates:

• Co-creation and communication among developers, technologists, and stakeholders in a single platform.
• Better management of requirements and user stories through enhanced tools like Epics for tracking progress and scope.
• Mitigation of development risk by aligning business and IT goals with Portfolio Management.
• Integration of stakeholder feedback into the development process through mini-surveys and feedback management capabilities.

By facilitating communication and co-creation throughout the innovation journey, Mendix ensures minimal rework and accelerated digital execution.

How does Mendix support effective collaboration in every phase of SDLC?

• Ideate

  All successful Agile software development projects begin with an ideation stage where the Agile product owner works closely with stakeholders, the business team, developers, and future app users. Guided by the greater team, the product owner pieces together a project vision and validates with users.

  Featured questions:

  • How can I get ideating rapidly with stakeholders?
  • How does Mendix support quick prototyping and validation?

• Prioritize

  Portfolio Management is about identifying and prioritizing initiatives aligned with strategic goals, streamlining the planning process for low-code solutions. Portfolio Management allows for strategy refinement and better value assessment within your company, enhancing ROI justification for IT investments.

  Featured Questions:

  • Why is Portfolio Management critical in driving Digital Transformation?
  • How does Portfolio Management help align development activities with strategic goals?
  • How is Mendix Portfolio Management embedded in the Mendix Platform?

• Plan

  Mendix advocates for an Agile approach, promoting incremental delivery by self-organizing teams. Learn about the Agile tools built into Mendix that will help you plan and manage your projects and teams effectively from day one.

  Featured Questions:

  • How does Mendix support Agile Working?
  • How does Mendix support Requirement management?
  • How does Mendix support integration with third-party planning tools?

• Develop

  Mendix is designed for a variety of users while providing powerful capabilities to developers for their day-to-day work. Understand how the platform enables you to build quickly with visual development tools and reuse dynamic app components.

  Featured Questions:

  • How does Mendix enable model-driven development?
  • How does Mendix support different developer profiles?
  • How does Mendix support multi-user development?

• Deploy

  Staging and deployment are essential parts of the DevOps process, and having proper governance and control in place allows developers to release new versions of their code rapidly.

  Mendix provides integrated tooling to support the staging and deployment of applications into the Mendix Cloud and also into other PaaS providers such as SAP Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, and OpenShift.

  Featured Questions:

  • How does Mendix support staging and deployment?
  • How do I deploy my apps as part of the release process?
  • What controls are available to secure the production environments of my apps?
  • How does Mendix support staging and deployment to other platforms?

• Operate

  For Mendix Cloud Deployment options, Mendix offers out-of-the-box features for operating your applications. This includes resource management, application operations, configuration management, backup management, log management, monitoring, and alerts.

  Featured Questions:

  • What features does Mendix Cloud offer?
  • What support does Mendix offer for the Mendix Cloud?

• Evaluate

  Evaluation is critical in building successful apps that meet business needs. It’s not enough to release an application to users and hope it achieves its goal, you need to evaluate success in meeting user needs and business goals and preferably throughout the development and application lifecycle.

  Featured Questions:

  • How does Mendix enable stakeholders and users to rapidly share feedback with development teams?
  • How does early and often feedback sharing improve application quality and delivery times?
  • How does Mendix equip teams to evaluate the success of the applications they deliver?