Our Vision
As seasoned professionals, we began our journey in technology during an era when business needs were communicated to developers through mountains of paper. It was rare for us to meet with customers, and typically only when there was an issue. Solutions were often delivered through large deployments, with schedules negotiated between individuals with opposing desires.
Eventually, we embraced agile development principles and discovered that making deliveries smaller allowed us to better tackle problems. This approach enabled us to grasp the total solution and understand the overall objectives, ultimately leading to improved quality in our IT solutions. While requirements were still delivered to engineering in bulk, we were clearly moving toward effective business transformation.
When deliveries got smaller, we recognized we could create IT solutions incrementally and iteratively. We could simultaneously establish requirements, develop agile development solutions, and test and deploy those solutions. This was in the early to mid 1990s, and we were pioneering agile development long before it became mainstream - before it was widely recognized as large-A Agile.
At that time, we didn't yet have business partners fully integrated, so we observed what many companies still experience today: a significant gulf between Business and IT. This realization set us on a path towards business transformation, leading us to bridge this chasm.
We needed more than smaller, iterative, and incremental deployments; we required our IT solutions to coexist and be repurposed within a network of solutions. Most importantly, we needed them to have their own reason for being—a distinct purpose in supporting business transformation. We learned to:
"Develop in the Small" - improving quality using good unit test practices (TDD and BDD).
Support Interoperability - leveraging Design by Contract (DbC) practices so our agile development solutions play well together.
Solutions Through Assembly - creating business solutions that are agile and produced by assembling company assets.
By adding business partners and an alignment platform, we found the Crown Jewel.
Converged Solutions for Business Transformation
At Canis Systems, we understand the ongoing gap between Business and IT, and we leverage our extensive experience to bridge this divide.
Our North Star Architectures reflect our dedication to integrated component architectures and best practices in DevOps, facilitating agile development for your organization. By aligning components with an Enterprise Taxonomy—developed in collaboration with both Business and IT—we ensure a consistent language and approach throughout your enterprise. Employing Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles, we build and assemble IT solutions that deliver agile and effective business transformation.