Hackystat leader joins 6th Sense advisory board
6th Sense is getting some star power. Dr. Philip Johnson, a pioneer in software development metrics and professor of information and computer sciences at the University of Hawaii's Collaborative Software Development Laboratory (phew), is coming aboard the good ship 6th Sense. Dr. Johnson is joining as a member of our advisory board, where he�ll lend his considerable skills and vision to our work in development metrics and also help our community building.
Dr. Johnson (or Philip as he likes to be called) is the principal creator and leader of the Hackystat project. Hackstat is an open, web services based framework that is capable of helping individuals collect metrics in order to gain greater insight into software development projects.
When we first started work on 6th Sense we conducted a thorough search of software development measurement and metrics, and quickly came to the conclusion Hackystat is the best there is. We immediately contacted Philip with a view to establishing a major, on-going relationship with him and his CSDL team.
Why? Well, we share a common and powerful vision that empirical software development can help bring in projects on time and on budget by giving teams the resources they need early on. By joining forces and working together we believe we can realize this vision quicker than if we worked separately in silos.
The Hackystat framework serves as the core technology for our sensors, which are already helping technology teams collate development metrics for people to keep their software projects running smoothly. In addition to contributing on going patches and bug fixes we will also contribute our sensors back to the community, to maintain openness and visibility. So far, we've already released sensors for Subversion and Bugzilla among other leading tools. Lastly, we are also contributing $25K to the CSDL for added support.
We're looking forward to a long, fruitful and - needless to say - enjoyable relationship with Philip, his team and the community in delivering on our shared vision of closing the knowledge gap between metrics and software development.
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