Sandhill.com, a website dedicated to the discussion of strategy for software executives, has posted an article by 6th Sense Analytics' CEO Greg Burnell titled "No Left Turns."
"A key part of optimizing software development processes is helping organizations to understand the use of time. How much time is spent actively coding, debugging, building, testing software? What is the relative allocation of time across projects? This empowers organizations to align resources to the highest yield outcome. What is the value of time for a software developer? It�s nothing short of everything. Time spent out of alignment is more or less wasted�direct and opportunity cost incurred and all value forgone. Time spent executing on the things that matter most to the business is as MasterCard says: Priceless."
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ENT News Online has posted a mention of our new support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Office.
"App-dev metrics vendor 6th Sense Analytics Inc. has announced that its Web-hosted service now integrates with Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Office."
Automated Solution for Software Development Metrics Captures Data from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Office Applications
Morrisville, NC -- June 19, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, today announced integration with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and the Microsoft Office system. 6th Sense Analytics users can immediately download and install sensors to capture data from these tools to achieve broader visibility into distributed software development projects. Support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Office applications expands upon the .NET developer tool support currently provided by 6th Sense Analytics, which includes Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Visual Basic.
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SD Times' Alex Handy has written:
One doesn't have to be a good manager to tell if employees are doing their jobs. But having deep insight into what it is, exactly, that each developer is actually working on can turn one into a great manager. That's why on June 11, 6th Sense Analytics updated its SaaS-based software development analytics tools to focus on projects as a whole, giving managers further illumination as to which tasks are taking developers the longest to finish.
Application Development Trend's Kurt Mackie has posted a great overview of the latest release of 6th Sense Analtyics:
Who needs intuition when you've got software to automatically track a project's development time?
6th Sense Analytics Inc. has issued a June version of its project management solution for software development teams. The company offers a software-as-a-service-delivered application that helps provide a standardized basis for assessing projects.
Dr. Dobbs Journal was quick to publish a mention of our latest enhancements:
To illustrate, one area of software development in which collecting metrics is invaluable has to do with project estimation. It is generally accept that poor estimation is responsible for the majority of software development project failures, and most estimates are based on subjective, inaccurate data, guesswork, and gut-feel intuition. This is one of the areas that the new release of 6th Sense Analytics addresses by providing a new set of capabilities for high-precision project estimation.
Computerworld's Mark Hall discusses the new release of 6th Sense Analytics in a recent article on SaaS (Software as a Service).
New Features Bring Accurate Visibility to the Status and Risk of Software Development Tasks and other Specific Work Items
Morrisville, NC -- June 11, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, today announced it has added significant new features to its award-winning solution. The June release delivers unprecedented visibility into the ongoing status of software development tasks, as well as a basis for estimating and diagnosing why projects miss their deadlines. This new capability builds upon the 6th Sense Analytics solution by providing a more detailed resolution of project work, correlating the data that 6th Sense Analytics automatically collects to the specific tasks, defects, enhancement requests and support issues at the heart of software development projects. The June release also adds several administrative enhancements, including capabilities for monitoring the technical status of data collection, and a more flexible permissions model for enabling and disabling user access to data. 6th Sense Analytics will showcase these new capabilities this week at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2007 in Nashville, Tenn.
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6th Sense Analytics Named One of the Most Innovative Technology Companies in the Southeast
Morrisville, NC -- June 5, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, has been named one of the Tech50, an annual list of the most innovative technology companies as judged by TechJournal South, the business publication of the southeast�s new economy. The Tech50 promotes the southeast technology community and is focused on fostering economic growth, entrepreneurial spirit and increased interaction among technology thought leaders in the region.
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Dr. Dobbs recently interviewed Todd Olson, CTO of 6th Sense Analytics, regarding his thoughts on software development metrics.
"The consolidation of the software-development lifecycle toolset has motivated vendors to expose a rich and comprehensive set of APIs for the purpose of integrating their own tools. This created a powerful opportunity for us to tap into these tools to capture meaningful, API-level events about the execution of the software development process. We don't measure coarse-level units such as keystrokes -- in fact, we don't think that sort of data is meaningful. We look at the discrete events and activities that are taking place -- designing, editing, debugging, testing, commits, etc."
