The work that never gets scheduled.
Every team has a list of things that genuinely need doing and never make it into a sprint. Dependency upgrades. Flaky tests. Small bugs with clear reproductions. Deprecation warnings that become an incident in eighteen months.
Label a ticket. Review a pull request.
Assign a Jira ticket to Nova or start the work in NovaCore. Nova uses the project environment and keeps progress visible while it investigates and implements the change.
Nova can reproduce the bug, write the failing test, fix it and run the suite. It verifies the result and attaches the relevant evidence before publishing a branch or pull request.
If the ticket is ambiguous, Nova asks. If publishing the result needs approval, Nova shows the right person the exact action and target before proceeding.
- 09:00 Jira PAY-2841 assigned to Nova duplicate confirmation emails started
- 09:01 Nova inspected the repository working
- 09:18 Bug reproduced and regression test written working
- 10:42 Fix complete · 214 tests pass 3 files changed done
- 10:48 Browser journey verified evidence attached verified
- 11:03 Branch publish approved · PR #912 opened approved
Small risk, real value, an honest signal.
The review boundary already exists
Your team gets an ordinary pull request, backed by tests and evidence. You are measuring whether review is cheaper than doing the work, not granting production authority.
You get a scorecard
Tickets completed, model and compute usage, reviewer corrections and evidence quality. The Pilot tier starts with those measures agreed.
It shakes out the awkward parts early
Your build, your test suite, your credentials, your review process, your approvals. If something in your setup is going to be difficult, this finds it in week one rather than month four.
One ticket is a demo. A trend is a result.
The version worth having is not one impressive pull request. It is many tickets across several teams at once, with the cost broken down per team and per repository, and the backlog visibly shrinking rather than a list of individual successes.
Your tracker stays up to date on its own: tickets move, comments get posted, links get attached. Nobody is maintaining a second view of the same work by hand.
- · Dependency and framework upgrades, where a test suite has your back
- · Flaky tests with a known reproduction
- · Bugs where the ticket already contains the steps
- · Deprecation warnings across a whole codebase
- · Test coverage on a module nobody has touched in a year
- · Mechanical refactors: a renamed API, a moved package, a changed convention
Pick a ticket you would otherwise not get to.
Bring it to the demo. We will run it against your repository, and you can judge it from the pull request rather than from anything we say here.