Morrisville, NC -- August 28, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, today announced that Todd Olson, co-founder and CTO, will speak at Serena xChange 2007, the worldwide user conference for Serena Software, Inc. This year's conference will take place September 9-12, 2007 in Chicago. Todd will present a session titled, "Managing by Metrics: A Framework for Metrics-Driven Planning," on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 10:00 AM.
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StickyMinds' Linda Hayes has posted "Automatic Metrics: Turn Down the Volume and Increase Awareness."
"After more than twenty years in the software development business, I have not found a way to measure developers that is objective, unobtrusive, and meaningful. Until now, that is.
The company 6th Sense Analytics offers an innovative new technology that allows customers to track a set of common development activities, such as checking code in or out, automatically in the background. The company supports "sensors" for a wide range of development tools that measure what the company calls Active Time and Flow Time. Active Time is the time spent constructing software, and Flow Time is an uninterrupted period of at least twenty minutes during which a developer is likely operating at peak efficiency."
James Surowiecki's great book The Wisdom of Crowds popularized the idea that the best answers lie in the community--none of us is as good as all of us. This is one of the founding principles behind the 6th Sense Analytics solution; our goal was to bring visibility to the software development process and to provide a basis for better understanding what has traditionally been a fairly murky discipline.
One of the powerful byproducts of the 6th Sense Analytics solution is access to community data on an aggregated and de-identified basis--data that reveals the patterns and trends that define the broader software development community. Our customers use this data for performance benchmarking and understanding how they're stacking up to the broader development community.
We look forward to sharing this data over time and doing our part in growing the collective intelligence of the software development community. By the way, I'm Greg Burnell. I'm co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics and an aspiring blogger. I look forward to talking to you over the coming weeks and hearing from you--as my comments either inform or infuriate.
Dana Gardner has posted his insights on 6th Sense Analytics' release of aggregated community data on his Zdnet blog:
"I wrote about 6th Sense Analytics as the company was emerging, and wondered how powerful the developer productivity measurement tools they offer would be if the data could be aggregated and larger use trends could be uncovered.
Well, some of the first community insights have arrived and they are quite interesting."
Visit Dana's blog for the rest of the story.
I had the pleasure to attend the 2nd Barcamp here in Raleigh-Durham at Red Hat's campus. After a great experience last year that provided me with new relationships and great inspiration, I'm pleased that the sequel lived up to the original.
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