6th Sense Analytics

Dana Gardner on Software Development Maturity

Dana Gardner, principal analyst of Interarbor Solutions, mentions 6th Sense Analytics in his recent Zdnet Blogs article on software development maturity: "So keep an eye on such market events as Borland's Gauntlet, 6th Sense Analytics, Microsoft, Eclipse, Relativity Technologies, ActiveGrid, IBM's Rational and Tivoli brands, Splunk, and HP's and BMC's deepening embrace of ITIL v3.0 and the pursuit of IT Service Management as a precursor to advanced BTO. With such activities comes the maturity of IT productivity, development, and operational quality — not each in their own vacuum but as part of holistic best practices and the continuous drive for quality and anticipatory management." says Dana. Read Dana's full article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2410

A New Way To Sell Software: SaaS

"Software-as-a-service is transforming the information technology industry. The innovation changes the way corporate customers and software creators invest in their businesses, though people who use the software might barely notice a difference." says Anne Krishnan, Staff Writer for the News and Observer. 6th Sense Analytics was mentioned as one of "the next generation of software companies is thinking outside the box -- literally." You can read her complete story here: http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/533936.html

Todd Olson Blends Agility with Finely-Grained Tracking in a featured article for Agile Journal

6th Sense Analytics CTO Todd Olson has written a comprehensive article for Agile Journal investigating techniques for blending more finely-grained tracking with conventional agile techniques. You can read the full article at Agile Journal: http://www.agilejournal.com/content/view/205/76/

Raleigh News & Observer on 6th Sense

Staff writer Anne Krishnan introduces 6th Sense Analytics to the locals: "Software development doesn't happen in a vacuum -- but sometimes it feels like it. Companies, wary of intruding into the creative process, traditionally have taken a hands-off approach to managing their developers. But without insight into employees' work, companies often don't know why their projects fail. And failure costs time and money. Enter 6th Sense Analytics, a small Morrisville company with an automated system for measuring and analyzing developers' productivity." The rest of the story... http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/526028.html

6th Sense Analytics interview with localtechwire.com

Rick Smith of the Triangle NC area tech news site localtechwire.com, asked 6th Sense Analytics about the company and our solution for restoring reality to the mayhem of software development in the following artice:

http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=15179

WRAL TV on 6th Sense Analytics

Local television station WRAL takes notice of 6th Sense Analytics:

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1058424/

SoftwareMag.com reflects on 6th Sense Analytics 2.0

SoftwareMag.com reflects on the lastest release of 6th Sense Analytics:

"Development team members install a sensor manager, or data collector, to their computers. 6th Sense Analytics sensors are automatically installed based on the tools already installed on the desktop. Development teams develop software as normal, without any impact on their development process. Sensors send activity data to a centralized 6th Sense Analytics server. Individual, team and project results data is available for analysis by developer, project leads and managers to analyze and report on."

Full Article:
http://www.softwaremag.com/L.cfm?doc=980-9/2006

SDTimes.com says “Productivity Is More Than a Hunch”

P.J. Connolly of sdtimes.com writes “Can a manager be an impediment to developer efficiency? According to 6th Sense Analytics, the answer can sometimes be yes.”

Read the whole story:
http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20060901-13.html

Application Development Trends Highlights Value of Transparency Provided by 6th Sense Analytics

Jason Turcotte writes about 6th Sense Analytics in his recent post Software Brings Transparency to Dev Environment at the Application Development Trends site:

"6th Sense Analytics offers software that provides enterprises with what�s really going down during the dev lifecycle, tracking how much time developers devote to projects, providing time estimates for future projects and alerting managers to those projects falling behind. The analysis also gives developers insight as to how they�re spending their day, which tools they are using most often and the periods (or �flow� time) in which they are most productive."

Dana Gardner on 6th Sense Analytics

Dana Gardner recently blogged about 6th Sense Analytics on his ZDNet blog:

“As a researcher, I love the idea of new and accurate metrics on what goes on amid development in the real world. Enterprise or ISV architects should love to really know what tools their developers actually use, how, and to what degree they benefit the bottom line. With such knowledge, enterprises, contractor developers, and ISVs may be able to stop paying for shelfware, and double-down on the investments in the tools, platforms, and frameworks that are actually getting the job done.”

Dana’s post really puts our goals at 6th Sense Analytics in perspective.

Read Dana’s full post here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2329