Users of our service should now notice that something is different. With the latest release, we've dropped Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as our default format for charts for PNG. The marks the end of an era of our unwavering support for this bleeding edge technology. Some times we take chances using certain technologies and those chances work out -- it saddens me that this chance didn't have the envisioned return.
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I'm pleased to announce that we've released an update to our 6th Sense Analytics service which features a completely re-worked user experience. It's the culmination of work beginning last Summer and finally coming to fruition last weekend. Words cannot adequately express the changes, so we're going to start releasing short movies highlighting areas of the release:
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David Starr had a good post this week on planning future work cycles. Do you use a team's commitment to the next iteration or the team's historical performance?
You’ve installed the 6th Sense Analytics toolset and discovered that your most senior developers are spending less than an hour a day writing code. This concerns you since you know these guys love coding and left their last job when they got pushed out of code.
The 6th Sense development team created a private blog to discuss development problems and solutions. We've decided to open that blog up to the world. It's small at the moment... just a few posts on Grails and Hibernate, but it'll grow.
6SA Development at Blogspot.com
Come check us out!
J. B. Rainsberger has a great blog entry titled Should We Measure Velocity on the importance of knowing where your team spends their time. He says knowing your history is more important than estimating new features.
It’s difficult to know where your development team is headed. Even with a perfect knowledge of how the team members work and how long it takes them to complete a feature, the specification often changes in the middle of a project. I’ve never finished a project with the original set of requirements.
