All About Eye Street

Background

Founded in 1995, Eye Street Solutions is a privately held, engineering focused small business that provides exceptional professional services across a wide range of information technology challenges and perspectives.

The Eye Street philosophy dictates that our outstanding people develop a detailed understanding of each project and apply a combination of our proven methodology and technical excellence to deliver exceptional quality and consistent added value. The application of this philosophy has enabled Eye Street to consistently exceed the expectations of our Clients and become their trusted partner in helping them achieve their business objectives.

We are successful because we do outstanding work. We know this because our Clients tell us, but it is also evidenced by the fact that all of Eye Street’s growth to date is a direct result of reputation, referrals, repeat business, and excellent Client relationships.

As with any for-profit business, Eye Street’s success is ultimately measured at the bottom line. Our focus, however, is firmly on the success of our Clients and our employees because we know that if they are successful, Eye Street will be too.

Reasons for Eye Street’s success

• Employing and retaining only top-tier technology professionals
• Consistently providing added value and exceeding Client expectations
• Reliably delivering our projects on time and on budget
• Working hard to maintain excellent relationships with our Clients
• Adhering to industry best practices and standards
• Using proven, repeatable methodologies for agile and iterative development
• Understanding that technology is a means, not an end
• A fundamental commitment to honesty and professional ethics
• We are serious and disciplined, but we enjoy what we do and we have fun doing it

The Eye Street Philosophy

It is commonplace in our industry to see consultants deliver “good” results by transforming a set of requirements into a product or solution without adding any value. At Eye Street, “good” is not good enough… we believe that our role goes beyond just doing. The degree to which we collaborate with our Clients to assess, comprehend, innovate, and improve is the degree to which true value is added and projects succeed beyond the Client’s expectations.

The Eye Street philosophy successfully integrates people, processes, and technologies while fostering an environment that is conducive to creativity and innovation, ultimately resulting in success for our Clients. We believe that great people can do amazing things when given some latitude, so we abide by a policy of minimum corporate interference with maximum corporate support. Our flat organization structure supports accessibility and agility and encourages collaboration between all team members.

We have created a culture of pride in workmanship, attention to detail, dedication to quality, and sense of the common mission to deliver solutions for our Clients that provide the best combination of results and value. We take pride in our work product and consider it an expression of our technical talents, values, and work ethic.

We recognize that culture and work environment are crucial elements to staff retention and ultimately to delivering superior Client solutions. Eye Street continuously evaluates and carefully manages growth so we can maintain the most effective infrastructure for the business, ensuring that we preserve our outstanding culture and environment.

Our People

As a professional services company, Eye Street knows that our people are absolutely critical to the success of our Clients, and ultimately to our own success. We are determined to give every one of our customers the best, so we engage in an extremely stringent hiring process to ensure that each new Eye Street employee comes exclusively from the top tier of available talent. Once we have these outstanding people on our team, we work hard to retain them by providing challenging projects, great benefits, professional growth opportunities, a friendly and enabling culture, and a dedication to the quality of life for every employee.

This recruitment and retention strategy has enabled Eye Street to build a team of exceptionally talented, motivated, and multi-disciplinary engineers and managers who possess a formidable amount of experience. Extensive wisdom, practical knowledge, theoretical understanding, analytical ability, and commitment to ethics and professionalism are just some of the qualities that characterize Eye Street employees. The extraordinary quality of our people helps differentiate Eye Street from much of our competition.

Staff Profile

• 100% of management team are veteran technology professionals

• 91% of staff are engineers, and of those:

  • 52% are Software Engineers
  • 9% are Engineering Project Managers
  • 14% are Product Support Engineers
  • 14% are System/Network/Database Engineers
  • 11% are Web Developers and Designers

• 31% hold clearances, with clearances pending for an additional 15%

Our Methodology

At Eye Street we know the significance of process. Well defined and executed processes result in better software and more successful projects. In order, however, for our projects to be truly successful and a good value for our Clients, however, our processes must be rigorous enough to prevent problems and unwanted surprises while being flexible and adaptable enough to accommodate change. To strike this balance, Eye Street skillfully employs Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) principals within process frameworks such as OpenUP and other agile, iterative methodologies.

All Eye Street projects effectively use Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) management and controls that result in a phased delivery approach with deep customer involvement. Our focus on frequent, honest communication with our Clients produces well managed expectations and excellent visibility.

Our solid process toolset fully automates task tracking and assignments and simplifies collaboration and accountability within Eye Street teams and between Eye Street and our Clients. The Eye Street methodology, combined with our proven, PMI Certified Project Management and excellent tools, has contributed appreciably to our many long and mutually rewarding Client relationships.

Highlights and Services

• OpenUP and other Agile, Iterative Methodologies
• Full System/Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Implementations
• PMI Certified Project Management
• Solid Supporting Toolsets for Process and Project Management
• Accurate, Insightful Requirements Engineering
• Project Salvage and Recovery