6th Sense Analytics was recently named to the 2008 TechJournal Tech50.
Tech 50 is a yearly list of technology leaders provided by TechJournal South, the business publication of the southeast’s new economy.
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Noted RedMonk industry analyst Michael Cote did a webcast interview with me about the 6th Sense Analytics product suite and how we integrate with the JIRA feature/issue tracker software. We’re a very nice addition to your Jira install. We easily pull data out of JIRA and then provide additional reporting and trending features.
Jeff Feinman of SD Times Magazine writes "New features in the 6th Sense Analytics update include a framework for attributing time to various categories, and an attribution engine that allows users to define their systems and create rules for attributing time to projects. System reports have also been refreshed with user-defined values and uniformity in tracking and reporting."
Read his full post at SDTimes.com:
http://www.sdtimes.com/article/latestnews-20071215-06.html
Vance McCarthy of Integration Developer News interviewed Todd Olson, our co-founder and CTO.
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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."
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.
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."
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.
