DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE (DevEx)
Improve developer experience across your entire engineering org
Developer experience is the sum of every friction point between your engineers and the work that matters: slow pipelines, fragmented tooling, security processes that block rather than protect, approval chains that nobody owns. We help you diagnose, prioritize, and fix them — systematically.
What does it mean to improve developer experience?
Improving developer experience means cutting the cognitive load, process overhead, and tooling friction that slow engineering teams down, without weakening governance or security. It covers workflow automation, internal tooling, CI/CD pipeline health, and onboarding speed.
Teams that treat DevEx as a business variable see measurable gains in delivery frequency, retention, and time-to-production. Teams that don't tend to learn the cost when senior engineers leave first.
The Atlassian State of Teams 2026 report puts numbers on the gap. 85% of knowledge workers use AI at work, but only 29% have embedded it in their actual workflows. As one Fortune 500 CTO noted, a 20% individual productivity gain doesn't translate into a 20% gain across the delivery cycle. The friction lives in the handoffs: reviews, sign-offs, and coordination the system was never built to absorb.
That is the DevEx problem in 2026. Faster individuals inside an unchanged system create more work in progress, not more shipped outcomes.
How we help improve DevEx?
Most DevEx engagements start with tooling and end there. Ours start with a structured diagnosis of where your engineers are actually losing time, then move into targeted remediation across three interconnected areas.
Before recommending anything, we assess where you are. Using a structured maturity model mapped against DORA delivery metrics and the DX Core 4 framework, we evaluate your workflows, tooling stack, automation coverage, and security posture, then benchmark the results against industry standards.
You leave with a prioritized roadmap, not a generic slide deck.
What's included:
- Workflow and process audit to surface friction points in development cycles
- Tooling and automation gap analysis across your full stack
- Security and compliance posture review (embedded vs. bolted-on)
- DevEx maturity score and benchmarked recommendations
AI coding assistants increase individual output. They also increase PR volume, review burden, and, if your delivery system is not ready, change failure rate. We help you capture the productivity gains without absorbing the instability.
Working with partners including GitHub Copilot, Atlassian Rovo, and LaunchDarkly, we automate the workflows that eat engineering time: code review triage, security scans, compliance checks, and deployment gates, so your engineers spend less time on process and more time on product.
What's included:
- AI-assisted code review and quality automation
- Automated security and compliance checks integrated into your existing pipelines
- Workflow bottleneck identification and remediation
- Developer productivity telemetry setup and baselining
Security processes that sit outside the development workflow are security processes that get bypassed. We embed governance directly into your engineering environment: policy-as-code, automated vulnerability scanning via Snyk, shift-left security checks, and real-time compliance monitoring, so your teams move fast inside a guardrailed system, not in spite of one.
What's included:
- Shift-left security implementation within CI/CD pipelines
- Policy-as-code to standardize and automate compliance enforcement
- Automated scanning integrated with Snyk and AWS security tooling
- Compliance monitoring that reduces manual review overhead
Why Modus Create?
Most consultancies bring a tool recommendation. We bring an engineering team that has seen what happens when DevEx is treated as an afterthought, and built the practices to fix it. What that means in practice:
Roadmap-level partner access
As an Atlassian Platinum Solutions Partner and AI Innovation Award winner, we work with product roadmaps, technical escalation paths, and implementation expertise that generic IT consultancies don't have.
Optimization across your real stack
Our partnerships with GitHub, AWS, Google Cloud, Snyk, LaunchDarkly, and Ionic let us tune your actual environment, not a hypothetical one.
Embedded, not advisory
Our engineers work alongside yours, implement changes directly in your environment, and hand off documented, maintainable systems.
OUR WORK
Improving developer experience with Modus Create
Mapbox eliminates developer friction with a unified Atlassian platform
Mapbox partnered with Modus Create to consolidate fragmented development workflows into a unified Atlassian ecosystem, improving collaboration, visibility, and operational efficiency across the organization. The initiative established a single source of truth for teams, reduced process overhead, and accelerated adoption at scale.
- 67.8% increase in team productivity
- 90% user adoption rate within the first two months
- 73 teams successfully onboarded to a unified platform
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Expert insights to improve developer experience
Frequently asked questions
We already have DevOps. Why do we need DevEx?
DevOps and DevEx are not the same. DevOps focuses on operations, CI/CD, and infrastructure, while DX is about removing friction from the entire developer workflow—from tooling and security to knowledge sharing and automation. A strong DX strategy enhances DevOps by ensuring engineers spend more time coding instead of navigating bottlenecks.
Will AI replace developers? Why should we adopt AI-powered automation?
AI won’t replace developers-it will empower them. AI-driven tools eliminate tedious, repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to focus on high-impact coding and innovation. AI-assisted code reviews, test automation, and workflow automation improve efficiency and security without sacrificing developer control.
We don’t have the budget for this right now. Why should we prioritize DevEx?
A strong DX strategy actually saves money by reducing inefficiencies, minimizing tool redundancy, and improving developer retention. Companies lose significant resources to burnout, slow development cycles, and inefficient workflows. By consolidating tools and optimizing workflows, businesses recover lost engineering time and ship faster with fewer errors.
Won’t improving DevEx disrupt our current workflows?
No, we take an incremental, low-risk approach to DX transformation. Instead of overhauling everything at once, we pilot solutions with small teams first, ensuring seamless adoption and immediate ROI without disrupting ongoing development efforts.
We already have too many tools. Won’t this add complexity?
DevEx isn’t about adding more tools-it’s about streamlining the ones you already have. Our approach reduces tool sprawl by consolidating workflows into integrated, developer-friendly platforms like Atlassian and GitHub. The goal is to eliminate inefficiencies, not introduce more.
How can we improve security without slowing down development?
Security should never be a bottleneck. Our Shift Left Security approach embeds compliance and vulnerability checks directly into the development workflow, automating policy enforcement without manual overhead. The result? More secure code, delivered faster.