“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

WHAT WE DO

cyrus candids 11Cyrus offers customized software development and process improvement that‘s fine-tuned to the needs of your company, whether it‘s an enterprise or a startup. No matter what the details of our engagement are, we guarantee:

  1. We staff our projects for success. Each team is assembled with the right mix of technical skill, industry experience, and personal passion. We don‘t "assign" developers to projects…every staffing decision is made in close collaboration with you and with the programmers who will ultimately be a part of your team.
  2. We get productive quickly. Cyrus teams understand that their primary goal is to deliver valuable software, and to start doing so as quickly as possible. While we employ a variety of trusted tools and processes to help us with that, if they‘re not working in your organization, we‘ll get creative and find something that does.
  3. We collaborate closely with your stakeholders and domain experts. Rather than sit around and wait for requirements and specifications to be hand-delivered, our developers seek out those crucial sources of information in your organization and build constructive, collaborative relationships with them. To build spectacular custom software, that kind of initiative is necessary.


In practice, our engagements tend to take one of two forms:

We Join Your Team (Embedded Development)
If you already employ software developers, we can embed ourselves within your team. Whether you‘re old hats at Agile software development, or are open-minded and willing to learn, our developers will seamlessly join in and provide an immediate productivity boost. For the life of the project, we‘ll work side-by-side with your team, providing additional capacity, consulting, and/or development management services. You‘ll reach your goals faster and be rewarded with improved development processes for the future.

We Take the Ball (Application Development)
If you don‘t have a development team, or if your existing teams are at capacity, it‘s no problem. We can develop a custom application for you. In these cases, we work with your business and technology teams to flesh out your top priorities, and get down to business. If you have space for us, we‘ll send our team to work at your offices - as close to the business as possible. If not, we‘ll work out of Cyrus‘ space and stay in close communication with you throughout the project.

Within our first two-week iteration, we‘ll have software to show you. It will certainly be small. It may not be something you‘ll be ready to use yet. But it will work, and it will have obvious business value. And we‘ll keep doing that, iteration after iteration, deploying working, tested software to production as frequently as you‘ll let us. When you‘ve decided that it‘s time for our engagement to come to a close (hopefully after a long and rewarding relationship!), you‘ll be left with a well-designed, maintainable codebase and a safety net of automated tests to support its future growth and modification.

cyrus candids unretouched 34Type of Projects:
New Technology Introduction & Adoption
Web Application Development
Development Process Improvement
Product Development