“Cyrus‘ culture emphasizes both technical mastery and workplace collegiality. As a Cyrus developer, I‘m inspired every day by my team.” - David A. Black, Agile Team Lead, Author, “The Well-Grounded Rubyist”

“Cyrus has been invaluable to us… Through close collaboration with Cyrus our team has learned (and continues to learn) a great deal about delivering quality code and Agile best practices.” - Brian Madden, Director of IT at Boston Capital

“We chose Cyrus because they got things done. Everyone else was just talk.” - Janet Kasdan, Technology Director, CondéNast Technology, CondéNast Publications

“Our clients are often surprised and grateful when they experience the high caliber of our teams and our results-oriented approach.” - Paul Infield-Harm, Director of Product Development

“Our developers continuously improve themselves, their teams and the craft of software development.” - Rex Madden, Managing Director/COO

“Cyrus has the smartest, most motivated people I‘ve ever worked with.” - Daniel Wellman, Director of Technology

“If you're in NYC and need enterprise web development services, talk to @cyrusinnovation. They 'get' Agile at a level well above average.” - James Shore, Author of "The Art of Agile Development", via Twitter

“Lots of places have people who want to write great code, and many places have work-life balance, but you don‘t hear about many places that have both.” - Laura Dean, Agile Team Lead

“Before working with Cyrus, we spent a lot of time fighting code fires. Now…that has gone away. We are now approaching our software projects in a proactive way. We can plan ahead and rely on those plans.” - Jerry Horowitz, Director Youth Tackle Football, NFL

“The thing that makes working at Cyrus great is its people. They are real people you can talk to and they‘re all interested in your growth.” - Steven Nunez, Junior Developer

“Cyrus not only helps you define professional aspirations, but reach them. At Cyrus, developers are challenged but they are also recognized and rewarded.” - Jason Reid, Director of Strategic Planning

“Working with Cyrus has been great. We‘ve made progress in a matter of weeks - much faster than expected. If you‘re interested in adopting Agile, I‘d highly recommend them.” - Vann Walke, Executive Vice President, Skarven Enterprises

“We have an honest, can-do attitude that clients recognize and value. They know we are going to deliver.” - Debbie Madden, Executive Vice President

“What I really like about Cyrus is that they help you see risks and potential delays right at the beginning of the project when you still have time to do something about it.” - Mark Freidberg, VP Operations, Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions

“Nothing energizes like spending an entire day each quarter with colleagues you hold in high esteem, in a company-wide open space that actually leads to significant, organizational changes.” - Paul Blair, Agile Team Lead

“We need a trusted, reliable source of trained and experienced developers who can step in on short notice and fit our collaborative culture [and] our expectations for quality….Cyrus provides that for me.” - Ken Judy, VP, Engineering Simon & Schuster

“As an Agile shop, we are continually learning and iterating in our own environment. If there is a faster, more efficient, more productive way of developing, we are going to find it.” - Oliver Stewart, Agile Team Lead

“Cyrus cares about its employees - from where they work to how they live.” - Aldric Giacomoni, Agile Developer

“The Agile training we received from Cyrus Innovation was instrumental to introducing scrum to the ATG organization.” - Kristin Moore, Director, Program Management, ATG

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Our developers are polyglot programmers - we know that there‘s always more than one way to solve a technology problem, and our clients value our  ability to approach challenges from different technical angles. We hire and train experts in the latest programming languages and environments. And to make sure they stay at the top of their game, every developer dedicates four weeks of each year to professional development activities. We‘ve never seen another firm match that kind of dedication to the craft of coding.

Here‘s a sample of the tools and environments our programmers have real-world experience with:

  • Ruby on Rails, Java, Scala, F#, .NET
  • Mobile - RubyMotion, Objective-C, Java(Android), PhoneGap
  • HTML5, CSS, Javascript, jQuery
  • Window, Linux, OSX
  • Rails, Sinatra, Spring Web MVC, jRuby

 

Development Done Right

Our developers know how to help their clients employ the Agile practices that will provide the most immediate value. Based on our extensive experience helping a variety of organizations adopt Agile, we examine what development processes are working well for you and where improvement opportunities lie. Together, we‘ll hone your strengths by introducing and improving Agile practices at a brisk but safe pace. Make no mistake about it, we are advocates for continuous improvement, and we‘ll do what it takes to ensure you benefit from our expertise and experience.  

Some of the Agile practices and principles that we help you navigate are:

Test-Driven Development

We create a safety net around the code base by writing automated tests that verify feature completion. And we do it before we write any production code.

Continuous Integration

No one works in a silo. Many times during the day, developers integrate their work with the larger team, to make sure that everyone is always working on the latest update — and to minimize surprise "end of project" integration problems.

Refactoring

It's not just about new code, it's about all the code — which is why our developers have permission to simplify existing code whenever possible — for a better and easier-to-modify code base.

Collective Code Ownership

When everybody can extend or improve every developer's code, bottlenecks are eliminated and better code is crafted because everybody is involved.

Pair Programming

Two programmers working together at a single computer — for better knowledge-sharing, increased productivity, and higher quality output.

Ten-Minute Build

The less time it takes programmers to see the results of their work, the more creative — and effective — they can be when applying it to solve client business problems. So we keep deploy times as short as possible.

Informative Workspace

To avoid project progress bogging down, we fill developer workspaces with "information radiators" - useful charts and diagrams that keep everyone up to date on the health of the project at a moment's notice.

Just Enough Documentation

Often documentation standards are out-of-date minutes after they're, well, documented. And they slow everything down. That's why we minimize documentation before implementation, and focus on it at project end for greater efficiency and accuracy.

Incremental Requirements

By allowing programmers to work in small batches, they can more quickly implement their work, demonstrate how it works, and make it available to the wider team faster and more efficiently.

Ten Minute Standup Meetings

No one likes meetings because they have a tendency to go on and on. That's why we limit ours to ten minutes, and require every one attending to stand — ensuring highly focused discussion of progress, health and upcoming coordination — so everyone can get back to work.

Iteration Retrospectives

Every step of the project, our programmers come together to discuss the tactics that worked well — as well as those that need improvement - to insure that everybody is continually improving.

Project Retrospectives

Because we are constantly learning — from the projects we're working on and from the projects we've completed, we hold half-day and full-day reviews of all the issues and ideas we've uncovered to make the most of every project moving forward.

Kaizen (改善)

The Japanese principle of continuous improvement - a concept that not only makes things better, it makes people better. We employ it in everything we do.